[Linux-aus] FW: Two entertaining & informative videos on the future of technology. Broadcast Flag, DMCA, Trusted Computing and Open software.

["Anthony Hornby" <ahornby@darlug.org>]

 Hi,
These are a couple of entertaining & informative video clips:
1) on how big media companies are trying to limit your freedom to use 
and access any content they produce, control your PC and subvert your 
freedoms.
2) how open software contributes to and is part of a free society

This is not just for IT geeks - these things affect everyone.

Cory Doctorow on Broadcast Flag, DMCA, Trusted Computing
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>From Redhat magazine:
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/020jun06/features/video_doctorow
Cory Doctorow, co-editor of popular blog BoingBoing, EFF Fellow, and 
award-winning science fiction author, discusses the circular nature of 
advancement and restriction in visual art, literature, radio, 
television, and music. Learn about digital rights management 
technologies like Broadcast Flag, DMCA, Trusted Computing, and the 
companies we know and love who are behind this crippleware. Doctorow 
gleefully illustrates how they threaten consumer choice and have 
throughout history, and what you can--and should--do about it.


Eben Moglen issues a call-to-action to keep freedom safe in a time when 
innovation is threatened.
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>From Redhat magazine:
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/020jun06/features/video_moglen
Eben Moglen, the Founding Director of the Software Freedom Law Center 
and a professor of law at Columbia Law School, issues a call-to-action 
to keep freedom safe in a time when innovation is threatened. Class is 
in session as Moglen gives us an insightful history lesson, 
incorporating Ralph Waldo Emerson and the concept of Yankee ingenuity to 
illustrate the importance of the open source revolution. We tip our 
cowboy hats to Mr. Moglen, because this is one helluva smart guy.

Hope people find them as interesting (and fun) as I did.
None of it is particularly new ground but it is presented well.

Regards Anthony.

Mr Anthony Hornby
Associate Director, Resources and Technology
Library and Information Access
Charles Darwin University (CRICOS 300K)
Phone: +61 8 8946 6011
Email: anthony.hornby@cdu.edu.au.no-spam (remove the .no-spam)


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