Books and Movies on DRM, Intellectual Property and Other Interesting stuff.

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• Security and Privacy in Digital Rights... This book constitutes the  refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Digital Rights Management, DRM 2001, held during the ACM CCS-8 Conference in Philadelphia, PA, USA, in November 2001. The 14 full papers in it have been selected from 50 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on renewability, fuzzy hashing, cryptographic techniques and fingerprinting, privacy and architectures, software tamper resistance, cryptanalysis, and economic and legal aspects.
• Mobile content protection and DRM...
• Digital Rights Management: ACM CCS-9... Digital Rights Management and Content... Digital Rights Management:... The content industries consider Digital Rights Management (DRM) to contend with unauthorized downloading of copyrighted material, a practice that costs artists and distributors massively in lost revenue. Based on two conferences that brought together high-profile specialists in this area - scientists, lawyers, academics, and business practitioners - this book presents a broad, well-balanced, and objective approach that covers the entire DRM spectrum. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the field, the book is structured using three different perspectives that cover the technical, legal, and business issues. This monograph-like anthology is the first consolidated book on this young topic.
• Copy Fights: The Future of Intellectual... The modern information revolution has created a whole new set of policy issues concerning intellectual property rights that must be addressed, including what kind of copyright protections are appropriate for books and musical works, an issue popularized by the controversy over Napster. The list of contributors to this cutting edge analysis includes many high profile names from equally high profile companies. This book claims to provide a roadmap to the future of information technology.
• Digital Copyright by Jessica Litman

Visionary stuff

• Snow Crash. A story of globalization and post-intellectual property in the west. 
  • Quote: This is America. People do whatever . . . they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can  . . . stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. When it gets down to it-talking trade balances here-once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here-once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by  . . . [globalization] . . . the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity-y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else
    • music
    • movies
    • microcode (software)
    • high-speed pizza delivery

    [And without intellectual property protection it's only one thing - so] . . . "The Deliverator" used to make software. Still does, sometimes.  . . .now he has this other job. No brightness or creativity involved . . . just a single principle: The Deliverator stands tall, your pie in thirty minutes or you can have it free, shoot the driver, take his car, file a class-action suit. The Deliverator . . . has never delivered a pizza in more than twenty-one minutes.

    
    "Snow Crash" is also very informative about Sumerian Data protection protocols.

     

• Distraction Bruce Sterling. How research is really funded. Its value in a truly open society.
  • Major consensus narrative.
• The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's... Can a book shape a life? How does Confucius view intellectual property?
• Johnny Mnemonic [1996] Digital Rights Management with wetwear, dolphins and cheese slicers
• Strange Days [1996]
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