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Streamburst offers innovative DRM for video

I've already discussed the German music store using watermarks to discourage piracy , and now it seems another service is applying the same principle to video . Instead of handcuffing viewers who want to view films they purchase on multiple devices and otherwise use content legitimately in ways DRM blocks...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-28-2007
Safety through Chaos

There is a theory that strict laws encourage anti-social behavior . Ultimately, these strict laws do the opposite of what they were intended to do, because they allow us to rationalize away responsibility. Along those lines, a Dutch town has eliminated nearly all traffic lights ( via Jeff ) and seen...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-10-2007
Do strict laws encourage anti-social behavior?

Mowab writes : [T]he idea, generally, is that you encourage community and cooperation by removing the safeguards that would keep you safe if you’re antisocial or don’t try to cooperate. What’s interesting is the corollary argument that social safeguards actually encourage antisocial...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-30-2004

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