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

Mark Coker — Thu, 03 May 2007 23:35:01 -0000

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.

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

John Pritchard — Thu, 03 May 2007 13:43:14 -0000

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

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

Michael Reuter — Thu, 03 May 2007 10:20:52 -0000

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.