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Jakob Nielsen: ‘Evil’ design
Review: Made to Break by Giles Slade
Mostly a mistake, partly a psychological experiment
Another phone business model designed to frustrate the customer
Speed control designed to help the user
BoingBoing podcast – direct link
Locking users in by making it difficult to leave
Uninnovate – engineering products to do less
Some links: miscellaneous, pertinent to architectures of control
Planned addiction as a method of control: a parasitic lock-in business model
Ed Felten: DRM Wars, and ‘Property Rights Management’
DRM now the ‘biggest issue’ in preserving information for the future
Oh yeah, that Windows Kill Switch
‘Fair use, Xbox hacking, and how far will Linux users go to get a cheap PC?’
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