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add this to your cart?DRM and autopia/myopia/distopia
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canada research chair in ethics, law & technology
university of ottawa
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DRM > ©
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DRM
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DRM
(i) a licensing arrangement which establishes the terms of use for the underlying work
(ii) a database containing information identifying the content and rights holders of a work
(iii) surveillance technologies that monitor and
meter customers’ use of its products
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privately ordered system of permissions
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DRM = licence + automation
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better to beg for forgivenessthan to ask for permission
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no forgiveness
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nothing to forgive
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DRM > ©
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If Left to Their Own Devices… How DRM and Anti-Circumvention Laws Can Be Used to Hack Privacy
DRM = {© + + …}
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moral disability
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DRM as disabler
• moral autonomy– eg, exercising legal rights (free speech/fair use)
• moral capacity– eg, cultivating virtue
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G.E.M. Anscombe "Modern Moral Philosophy", Philosophy, 33 (1958)
phronesis
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areté
• virtue is knowing
• knowing by doing (hexis)
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defect excesshonestyvirtuedishonesty tactlessness
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disabled
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www.carttronics.com
infrared global transmitter
infrared direct transmitter
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caster lock
(infrared receiver)
www.kartsaver.com
shopping carts
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sylvan goldman
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smart carts
other smart carts
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etiquette
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disabled
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(pre-programmed etiquette?)
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autopia?!
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auto-mation
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“act only on those maximswhich you can at once will to be a universal law”
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informationsuperhighway
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IPv6
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netvolution
the network of ideas
↓the network of things
↓the network of people
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DRM?
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add this to your cart?DRM and autopia/myopia/distopia
iankerr
canada research chair in ethics, law & technology
university of ottawa
anonequity.org
