Reasons for an open society and goverment
As has been seen in my previous posts I am a strong proponent for what I term an open society. That is a society in which all centralized government functions are open to all eyes with little or no barrier of entry. An example would be have providing all records and transcripts of city meetings online as well as in person. Online and in person are both barriers as they require net access and transportation
read onThe Value of DRM
DRM seems to be a hot issue these days, and so after reading two interesting articles at Ars Techinca (here and here) I decided to write a bit more on the issue. The new argument for DRM seems to be that that it benefits the consumers. I would like to look at this issue and try to answer the question, “What is the value of DRM to society”?
To start this off
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