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Re: bit-split, or: the schizophrenia of trusted computing
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Lluis |
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Re: bit-split, or: the schizophrenia of trusted computing |
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Mon, 1 May 2006 18:37:57 +0200 |
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El Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:34:26PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann ens deleità amb les
següents paraules:
> At Mon, 01 May 2006 09:58:19 -0400,
> "Jonathan S. Shapiro" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> My expected outcome was that the ethical issue has nothing to do with
>> whether the artifact is digital. It entirely has to do with the marginal
>> cost of reproduction (to the initial holder) being zero, and the belief
>> that creating artificial scarcity is fundamentally unethical.
>>
>> I am still not 100% certain, but I think that this is actually where
>> Marcus and I ended up.
>
> Sounds about right, however, there is an extra dimension, which I
> pointed out and you omitted above. There must be a public interest in
> the artifact. Otherwise, it would be impossible to be consistent with
> the above and defend some amount of privacy, too.
Right, that's why I talked about culture and knowledge (which are two words
but with a common root), which are (should?) be of public interest, and
that's why I also talked about IT investement on the public administration
(my digression was not so away of the main theme ;))
For me, any intent of exclusive and (or?) abusive ownership on those cases
(free or marginal cost of reproduction of "things" on the public interest
- and the majority of these happen to be on their digital representation)
is unethical (but it's clearly not immoral, as I think the society
percieves it).
Anyway, _I think_ we all see this (with or without agreement), so no more
discussion about this should follow to maintain a good SNR (if you agree
with me that it's clear, of course; I don't want to obligate nobody to stop
talking).
And I'm the first to break my own rule of good SNR keeping... :)
Read you,
Lluis
PS: [offtopic] there's an interesting project from a friend (although I
don't advocate for it; I think my personal life is just that, personal),
called BlogMail (http://www.blogmail.cc) which tries to push free
information to enhance knowledge to the limit, where the mailbox is in a
Blog-form so supposedly everybody can learn from other people's experiences
(the project is in spanish for now, but)
--
"And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn
something new, the whole world becomes that much richer."
-- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom
Tollbooth
Listening: Lacrimosa (Der Morgen Danach (Single)) - 3. Nichts Bewegt Sich
- Re: bit-split, or: the schizophrenia of trusted computing, (continued)
- Re: bit-split, or: the schizophrenia of trusted computing, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/05/01
- Re: bit-split, or: the schizophrenia of trusted computing, Marcus Brinkmann, 2006/05/01
- Re: bit-split, or: the schizophrenia of trusted computing, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/05/01
- Re: bit-split, or: the schizophrenia of trusted computing, Marcus Brinkmann, 2006/05/01
- Re: bit-split, or: the schizophrenia of trusted computing, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/05/01
- Re: bit-split, or: the schizophrenia of trusted computing, Marcus Brinkmann, 2006/05/01
- Re: bit-split, or: the schizophrenia of trusted computing, Jonathan S. Shapiro, 2006/05/01
- Re: bit-split, or: the schizophrenia of trusted computing, Marcus Brinkmann, 2006/05/01
- Re: bit-split, or: the schizophrenia of trusted computing, Michal Suchanek, 2006/05/01
- Re: bit-split, or: the schizophrenia of trusted computing, Michal Suchanek, 2006/05/01
- Re: bit-split, or: the schizophrenia of trusted computing,
Lluis <=
Re: bit-split, or: the schizophrenia of trusted computing, Pierre THIERRY, 2006/05/01
Re: bit-split, or: the schizophrenia of trusted computing, Lluis, 2006/05/01