Fine, lets do something about it. What I am seeing is this is again another manifestation of the lack of competence and foresight on the part of the people who are in a position to run things. The core issue of things is that the people in leadership positions are trying to apply old school methods of thinking to a new environment. An environment, that by the way, many of these leaders have helped create. They are trying to solve the problems of an information based society by applying industrial society rules and thought processes to it. Hence such idiotic laws as the one under discussion now. Should something be done about this? Yes, defiantly. I think it should be us who do something about this, as we are going to be the people who are going to have to clean up this mess in the end anyway, and we have the closest thing to an understanding of how an information society works. I think the leadership in both government and industry have successfully proven their incompetence, maybe we should step up before things are effed up beyond all repair.
I've been following this issue and a few others for a bit now and I'm seeing some interesting things. What I'm seeing is a lack of IP and copyrighting laws that will actually work with the digital medium. What I'm getting out of this is that the DMCA, which seems to be more of the sticking point then the actual Kerberos issue is, just plain out doesn't work. With all the technological developments we have made over the past thirty years we have altered the world so much that it is now a new environment. The DMCA is trying to apply old style, traditional methods to a new and changed space. Truth be told the old style and traditional methods just can't really be applied to this now can they? The issue around the DMCA is just another indication of how screwed up the world is and how much more screwed up it is getting. It is one thing to run around shouting the mantras of 'This is a new world, This is a wired world' and it is totally another to really understand the fundamental changes that have happened to society. The people who came up with the current legislation pertaining to protection of digital IP apparently don't get it and from their actions neither does Microsoft. (Which is kinda funny as they helped drive the big changes.) What really needs to be done is to get systems, laws and methods of dispute resolution in place that WILL work now with these issues and will also work in the future. After all we are the people building this future.
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Fine, lets do something about it. What I am seeing is this is again another manifestation of the lack of competence and foresight on the part of the people who are in a position to run things. The core issue of things is that the people in leadership positions are trying to apply old school methods of thinking to a new environment. An environment, that by the way, many of these leaders have helped create. They are trying to solve the problems of an information based society by applying industrial society rules and thought processes to it. Hence such idiotic laws as the one under discussion now. Should something be done about this? Yes, defiantly. I think it should be us who do something about this, as we are going to be the people who are going to have to clean up this mess in the end anyway, and we have the closest thing to an understanding of how an information society works. I think the leadership in both government and industry have successfully proven their incompetence, maybe we should step up before things are effed up beyond all repair.
I've been following this issue and a few others for a bit now and I'm seeing some interesting things. What I'm seeing is a lack of IP and copyrighting laws that will actually work with the digital medium. What I'm getting out of this is that the DMCA, which seems to be more of the sticking point then the actual Kerberos issue is, just plain out doesn't work. With all the technological developments we have made over the past thirty years we have altered the world so much that it is now a new environment. The DMCA is trying to apply old style, traditional methods to a new and changed space. Truth be told the old style and traditional methods just can't really be applied to this now can they? The issue around the DMCA is just another indication of how screwed up the world is and how much more screwed up it is getting. It is one thing to run around shouting the mantras of 'This is a new world, This is a wired world' and it is totally another to really understand the fundamental changes that have happened to society. The people who came up with the current legislation pertaining to protection of digital IP apparently don't get it and from their actions neither does Microsoft. (Which is kinda funny as they helped drive the big changes.) What really needs to be done is to get systems, laws and methods of dispute resolution in place that WILL work now with these issues and will also work in the future. After all we are the people building this future.