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18 December 2003

Ubiquitous encryption?

The music industry's attempts to force digital data to behave like physical objects has had two profound effects, neither of them about music. The first is the progressive development of decentralized network models, loosely bundled together under the rubric of peer-to-peer...

And the second effect, of course, is the long-predicted and oft-delayed spread of encryption. The RIAA is succeeding where the Cypherpunks failed, convincing users to trade a broad but penetrable privacy for unbreakable anonymity under their personal control.

From Clay Shirky's Writings About the Internet

See also:

  • Wired's Giving Sharers Ears Without Faces
  • CNET's P2P's little secret
  • The Register's US Sponsors Anonymiser - if you live in Iran
  • My earlier post on intangible property

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