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Re: DRM technology and policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold G. Reinhold)
Mon Apr 28 12:03:02 2003
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 23:20:00 -0400
To: Paul Walker <paul@black-sun.demon.co.uk>,
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From: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
At 10:37 PM +0100 4/23/03, Paul Walker wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 07:44:45PM +0000, Andreas Bogk wrote:
>
>> Sure. But if somebody claimed that the newspaper changed, I could go
>> to my personal archive of that news source, and compare.
>
>True. But, if there's a difference between the two, why should I believe
>something you've got rather than something that's on their server?
>
And what makes you think the DRM'd news media of the future will let
you keep a plaintext personal archive? Your subscription lets your
view a story for a week. For a small additional charge you'll be able
to download a one-week copy of the same story whenever you want. But
plaintext versions? Never! That would permit unfettered copying, you
see.
Arnold Reinhold
"1984" -- just another high-tech product plan with an over-optimistic
ship date. But it's finally in beta.
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