Clay Shirky: RIAA Succeeds Where Cypherpunks Fail

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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WILDCAT IS ON TEH SPOKE

[Anonymous Coward]

just cuz he is

Nice job Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

Not linking to the story is top-notch performance. You suck as usual. That is all.

In Soviet Russia...

[Reziac]

...the saying went like this:

"When any three people sit down to discuss conspiracy, two are government spies, and the third is a fool."

(Actually, the saying dates back at least as far as Czarist Russia.)

(You were expecting something else? :)