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Submission + - Would you secure personal data with DRM tools?

Submitted by museumpeace on Friday October 11, 2013 @11:28AM

museumpeace writes: From its own EmTech conference, Technology Review reports on a privacy strategy from Microsoft's Craig Mundie: When sharing music online took off in the 1990s, many companies turned to digital rights management (DRM) software as a way to restrict what could be done with MP3s and other music files—only to give up after the approach proved ineffective and widely unpopular. Today Craig Mundie, senior advisor to the CEO at Microsoft, resurrected the idea, proposing that a form of DRM could be used to prevent personal data from being misused.

Submission + - Whither MSFT: InfoWorld's crystal ball (blogspot.com)

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on Monday December 29, 2008 @10:19AM

museumpeace writes: "InfoWorld executive editor Galen Gruman has brainstormed five different scenarios for MicroSoft in the coming decade and solicits the reader's vote on which is more likely. Does it tank? Does it go open source? Does it out-Google Google? Does Ballmer really fill Gate's shoes? Amusing to read...or maybe you have a more prescient scenario to share in the comments?"

Submission + - US no longer the world's internet hub (blogspot.com)

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museumpeace

on Saturday August 30, 2008 @09:21AM

museumpeace writes: "It seems inevitable and mostly for positive reasons such as IP connectivity becoming truly universal, but I am saddened a bit to see the US slip behind other nations as the world's dominant hub for internet traffic The negative reason? Michael Heyden of the CIA came right out and said it: "Because of the nature of global telecommunications, we are playing with a tremendous home-field advantage, and we need to exploit that edge,""

Submission + - A map of the tides content owners try to fight (huffingtonpost.com)

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museumpeace

on Friday April 11, 2008 @11:16AM

museumpeace writes: "slashdotters constantly chew on stories like the first sale doctrine and the endless maneuvering of RIAA, MPAA, follies of DMCA and DRM in general etc. I think of each of those stories as like trying to make sense of a particular earthquake. In Huffington Post, blogger Jonathan Handel lays out briefly six tectonic market and technology forces by which sense could be made all of this. Sample his point #5, the media IS the money: 'Fifth is market forces in the technology industry. Computers, web services, and consumer electronic devices are more valuable when more content is available. In turn, these products make content more usable by providing new distribution channels. Traditional media companies are slow to adopt these new technologies, for fear of cannibalizing revenue...'"

Submission + - which far out technologies might just be possible? (blogspot.com) 1

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museumpeace

on Thursday March 13, 2008 @02:04PM

museumpeace writes: "In the NYTimes book review blog, David Itzkoff Looks at a new book devoted to predicting which "science fiction" technologies may really fly some day. The author is Michio Kaku, one of the inventors of string theory, so he bears a hearing. His picks include light sabers, invisibility and force fields. And if you call right now, you could leave a comment."

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