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Re: DRM technology and policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Bogk)
Wed Apr 23 16:04:46 2003
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From: Andreas Bogk <andreas@andreas.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:44:45 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20030423183516.GC1604@black-sun.demon.co.uk> (Paul Walker's
message of "Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:35:16 +0100")
Paul Walker <paul@black-sun.demon.co.uk> writes:
>> information from a back issue. It's hard to modify past. On the
>> other hand, with an online newspaper where it was impossible to save a
>> copy of the article, modification of history boils down to changing a
>> single file on a single server. Orwell, we're only 20 years late.
> Just to point out that any newspaper which is only published online can be
> changed easily. The fact people can save copies isn't that relevant, since
> they could easily have faked them. Same with screenshots etc.
Sure. But if somebody claimed that the newspaper changed, I could go
to my personal archive of that news source, and compare.
> DRM is something of a red herring here. :-)
No, it ain't. Go ask a librarian.
Andreas
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