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Aboriginal Archive Uses New DRM
ianare writes "An application that gives fresh new meaning to 'digital rights management' has been pioneered by Aboriginal Australians. It relies on a user's profile to control access to a multimedia archive. The need to create profiles based on a user's name, age, sex and standing within their community comes from traditions over what can and cannot be viewed. For example, men cannot view women's rituals, and people from one community cannot view material from another without first seeking permission. Images of the deceased cannot be viewed by their families. These requirements threw up issues surrounding how the material could be archived, as it was not only about preserving the information into a database in a traditional sense, but also about how people would access it depending on their gender, their relationship to other people, and where they were situated."
Great, just what the internet needs. More dudes pretending to be chicks.
Except in this case, it's more like the "pasty man's" notion of perfection.
Consider it like the 127.0.0.1 goatse.ch line in your /etc/hosts file.
Why, I do believe you have come across the simplest explanation of the system's motivation that a slashdotter would understand.
The enemies of Democracy are
Well, I think that Larry Craig learned a lot in that airport restroom!
That is all.