EMST 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Readwrite, Digital Rights Management, Gnutella

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Entertainment and Media Studies
• Course: EMST 3010
• Professor: Hamilton, James

Document Summary

All files (cid:449)ere o(cid:374) users" co(cid:373)puters, (cid:374)ot their ser(cid:448)ers. Technical protocols (programs), not a company or service. Penalties for users who circumvent digital rights management (drm) Digitally encrypted content; playable on few devices. Further restricts boundaries of fair use (machine makes choice for you) Absolves isps from copyright liability due to actions of its users. Need to provide means to register copyright complaint. If complain is legit, need to remove copyrighted material. But relied on dmca stipulation re: isps. Network + content (at&t and time warner proposed merger) And charge others premium price for high speeds. Policy principle that all traffic should be treated equally. 4 mil public comments; large majority in favor. Read/write culture increasingly replaced by read-only culture. Internet is an opportunity to revive read/write culture. Let artists choose (rather than government ruling in favor of companies to shut things down and be in control and rather than everything being free and open)