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Privacy and Piracy
May 06, 2006 ( Hactivismo )
In working on a short final paper dealing with the US/EU privacy debate, I had some thoughts about the current state of the music and movie industry's approach to piracy.
The EU/US disconnect on privacy has the band-aid of the Safe Harbor Act, which allows the US market to self-regulate and use privacy seal programs (remember TrustE?) which can then be linked to acceptable practices under the privacy directive. Now, these self-certification systems are ... dubious at best. For TrustE, you basically wrote your privacy statement and proved to them that you did what you said. It was OK to say "I take all my customer data and credit card numbers and send them to business associates in Russia" -- as long as that accurately portrayed your business processes, you win a seal! This didn't really catch on, but remains the trust model.
I want this market-regulated system for piracy! I want to present media producers with my media consumption practices, and they can choose whether or not to sell media to me.
e.g.
With this media, I will:
Listen to it.
Copy it to a portable music device
Burn it to CDs to listen to in my car
Share with my friends, so as to introduce them to new artists.
I will not share it with anonymous users.
I will not upload it to the Internet in a public forum, download site, or p2p network
etc.
Of course, this would require two-directional negotiation and data flow, instead of the one-directional "You can't do anything" approach of DRM.
Posted by griffjon at May 6, 2006 02:55 PM
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