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Clay Shirky: RIAA Succeeds Where Cypherpunks Fail

Posted by michael on from the sufficient-motivation dept.

scubacuda writes "Clay Shirky has an interesting take on encryption: 'The RIAA is succeeding where the Cypherpunks failed, convincing users to trade a broad but penetrable privacy for unbreakable anonymity under their personal control. In contrast to the Cypherpunks "eat your peas" approach, touting encryption as a first-order service users should work to embrace, encryption is now becoming a background feature of collaborative workspaces. Because encryption is becoming something that must run in the background, there is now an incentive to make its adoption as easy and transparent to the user as possible. It's too early to say how widely casual encryption use will spread, but it isn't too early to see that the shift is both profound and irreversible.'"

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  1. Jesus Saves by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    You don't need encryption to save you when you accept Jesus H. Christ into your heart.

    1. Re:Jesus Saves by rco3 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Haploid.

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  2. what?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    a dream come true for fp (hopefully)

  3. typo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    should be the GNAA succeeds where the cyperpunks fail

  4. The USA sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Massive crime rate, high unemployment -- why would I want to live there?

    1. Re:The USA sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Good question. Any of you USians care to answer?

    2. Re:The USA sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Why do I care if you live here or not?

    3. Re:The USA sucks by PitaBred · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      And voting for Dean means you haven't been brainwashed by media? Isn't he the guy who claims to have the approval of the guy who claimed to have invented the Internet? Take a cue from Douglas Adams. The person least interested in having the power is more than likely the person most capable of handling it.

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  5. can someone explain by Savatte · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    what eating peas has to do with encyprtion? I'm totally lost.

  6. Jesus saves, but Moses invests by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That is all.

  7. we gnaw by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nibble nibble munchkin. the M$FT is so big yes. it controls, controls all. the people they walk by i see their feet though my window. their feet swing by the bars on my window. pretty feet shiny shoes. swish swish. are they going to work? i WILL NOT go to work. M$FT is at work. M$FT controls the pretty feet people. controls their money their futures.

    i sit and rebuld my kernel. my CPU thrums. the kernel it is the key. we hack the linux yes good. 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, ...2.6!!!!!!!!! the M$FT it fears the linux. spreads lies. says the linux comes with no warranty. THE WARRANTY IT IS BAD! it goes into your pores. steals your power. the kernel is good. the kernel will rise and slay the M$FT. when the itching comes i think about the linux. it helps.

    i hack a driver for my dvd-rom. it does not work. i debug. it does not work. i delete the old source. and start again. i recompile. it does not work. on M$FT the dvd-rom is plug and play. that is how they get you. get behind your eyes. start the itching. so i hack the driver. i hack, we hack: we gnaw. gnaw at the ropes of slavery. the ropes of M$FT. pretty feet people, we will save you.

    the itching comes...

  8. How to Win a War by theonetruekeebler · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    1. Declare victory.
    Ta da! You've won a war! What? Didn't know there was a war going on? We like, didn't want to scare you? So we fought it? In secret? And we won? So now you should do thing our way? And pay us? Money we don't deserve?

    (P.S. Step 3 ???, Step 4 profit.)

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  9. ...same old Al Gore Internet canard by NSash · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And voting for Dean means you haven't been brainwashed by media? Isn't he the guy who claims to have the approval of the guy who claimed to have invented the Internet?

    Speaking of being brainwashed by the media, AL GORE NEVER SAID THAT. Sheesh, you'd think that with all the times this has been debunked, you people would eventually get it through your heads.

  10. Re:snake oil by rifter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The idiom "to coin a phrase" is also used in an alternative sense, "to bring out a hackneyed saying yet again".

    No it is not. Or was never the last I checked. Do you have a source?