Identity and Identification in a Networked World Part 1
Gotta run, but will be back tomorrow with the second half of this conference…
Some grad students are presenting projects:
Alex Cameron
Eddan Katz
Lorraine Kisselburgh – geolocational privacy
Olivia Nellums
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First up: DRM and the Automation of Virtue – Ian Kerr – idtrail.org
Norman Rockwell’s “Triple Self Portrait”
Lunchtime at the Grocery – colossal supermarket: serve yourself
Information wants to be free: Stewart Brand – information wants to be free. information also wants to be expensive. this tension will not go away, and it will get worse with each generation of devices.
DRM: adding a 4th layer of protection – in the US it’s covered by the DMCA (digital millenium copyright act)
beginning with the first layer: copyright law -> contact law (eula) -> digital locks (drm) -