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VentureBeat: Web tends toward radical openness, as Digg.com, Pandora show

  • Michael Reuter · 2 years ago
    We had the same effect - though on a smaller level - here in Germany, with many posts like this one: http://www.yigg.de/112837.

    Yes - people have started to instrumentalize the web.
  • John Pritchard · 2 years ago
    The assertion of "radical openness" is going too far in the wrong direction. Businesses in a technical world like the computer based world of the internet, or more importantly their investors, need to understand why.

    There are mathematically or epistemologically absolute truths in the mix, here.

    The mathematical necessity here is in "machine" (automated) secrets- keeping. Rights Protection depends on a secret, typically an encryption key.

    It is necessarily impossible for a machine in the hands of a consumer to keep a secret from the consumer.

    It is only possible for a machine across the network in the hands of a producer to keep a secret on behalf of the producer.


    With certainty,

    John
  • Mark Coker · 2 years ago
    The Digg incident may go down as the Internet's equivalent of the incident at Telegraph and Bancroft @ UC Berkeley where the Free Speech Movement was born. People don't like it when you try to regulate expression in all its forms.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement