Re: Is EME usable regardless of the software/hardware I use ?

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Emmanuel Revah <stsil@manurevah.com> wrote:

> On 2013/06/11 19:46, Mark Watson wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Andreas Kuckartz
>> <A.Kuckartz@ping.de> wrote:
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>>  B. Ross Ashley:
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>>>  On 13-06-10 09:20 AM, Emmanuel Revah wrote:
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>>>>> EME/DRM is more comparable to an alarm designed to protect home
>>>>>
>>>> owners
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>>>> against their own guests.
>>>>>
>>>> Actually, it is even more comparable to an alarm system to defend
>>>>
>>> teh
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>>>> guest against the houseowner! I am not on their machine, they are
>>>>
>>> on mine.
>>>
>>> +1 (I intended to write the same.)
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>>> The houseowner will not be allowed to find out what the alarm is
>>> really
>>> doing. It might be monitoring his house silently. Maybe on behalf
>>> of
>>> media rights owners, maybe on behalf of the NSA, maybe on behalf of
>>> both.
>>>
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>> Extended analogies aside, what would be a good way to address this
>> concern ? That is, how can we give the user the _option_ to
>> _voluntarily_ accept that certain restrictions be applied to certain
>> data without opening the door to the security and privacy concerns
>> expressed above ?
>>
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> I prefer to ask:
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> If there is no other way to restrict content other than by involving
> privacy concerns, should we still do it ?


So, your saying, if there is no other way to restrict content other than by
involving privacy concerns, should we even give the users the choice ?


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