All posts filed under “Analog hole

Or analogue hole – sounds more correct to me, but then you have to think about where these tags are going to be referenced!

Technology designed to serve others

Technology designed to serve others

Bruce Schneier, in a Wired story, ‘Everyone Wants to ‘Own’ Your PC’, classifies DRM along with worms and viruses as all being specifically intended to remove control of a computer from the user/owner. This is a particularly succinct quote: “When technology serves its owners, it […]

BBC: Bram Cohen on network neutrality

BBC: Bram Cohen on network neutrality

This BBC Newsnight story, by Adam Livingstone, about the possibilities of a two-tier internet – ‘BitTorrent: Shedding no tiers’ – has an interesting fictional ‘architectures of control’ example to illustrate the possibilities of price discrimination in networks (see also Control & Networks): “So there’s me […]

ZDNet: DRM train wrecks

ZDNet: DRM train wrecks

ZDNet’s David Berlind has started to compile a Del.icio.us list of examples of ‘DRM train wrecks’, i.e. situations where the use of DRM has a distasteful corollary for consumers unaware of what they’re getting themselves into. “Most people don’t realize how much they’re giving up […]

The fight back: Dongle sharing

The fight back: Dongle sharing

Just flicking through last month’s issue of MCAD magazine, I came across an interesting advert from Smart Logic Ltd for the SmarterX range of ‘dongle sharing’ devices.

Podcast of London Copyfighters’ Brunch

Podcast of London Copyfighters’ Brunch

The guys at Meme Therapy – incubating the world’s premature ideas have produced a great podcast of last Sunday’s fascinating London Copyfighters event, with interviews, discussion and some of the speeches from Speakers’ Corner, including my own rather spur-of-the-moment rant (about 25 minutes in) in […]

The fight back: Defeating cartridge expiry

The fight back: Defeating cartridge expiry

Via Boing Boing (& thanks too to Jeremy Tirrell for alerting me), a very useful piece of free software from the SSC Localization Group which allows the user to get round a variety of architectures of control designed into Epson printer cartridges, including:

Digital control round-up

Digital control round-up

Some developments in – and commentary on – digital architectures of control to end 2006: Peter Gutmann’s ‘A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection’ (via Bruce Schneier) looks very lucidly at the effects that Vista’s DRM and measures to ‘protect’ content will have – […]