[A2k] Re: A2k digest, Vol 1 #375 - 12 msgs

[Seth Johnson]

Exactly!

I used Professor Eckersley's comment as an opportunity to
illustrate, once again, the deficiencies with the term "Digital
Rights Management," by comparing it to "TPM."  So there could be
no more confusion about what's wrong with "digital rights
management" I sought to illustrate how that term works by
comparing it against the other.  I noted in particular that
"protection" was still loaded, yet all in all, the term "digital
rights management" is the one that wreaks greater damage with the
bogus way it uses the term "rights," and in fact we would even
find it relatively easy to just keep things clear with respect to
a term like "TPM" if "digital rights management" were not out
there.


Seth


Sasha Costanza-Chock wrote:
>
> No term is 'neutral.' All terms are chosen for what they will highlight
> or hide. A good example is the term 'collateral damage.' In a certain
> twisted sense someone might argue that it is more 'neutral' (designed
> not to induce emotional reaction) than 'murdered civilians,' but that
> would be a quite cynical argument.
>
> In a similar way, we should pay attention to the 'value valence' of the
> terms we choose to use...
>
> DRM is widely used and understood to refer to technological restrictions
> on access to digital information, TPM is not. At the same time, I agree
> with the argument that 'Digital Rights Management' is a frame that is
> friendly to the interests of the copyright maximalists.
>
> How about keeping the acronym but reinscribing it with a meaning that
> foregrounds what we are trying to say about the technology?
>
> Say, Digital Restriction Measures (DRM)
>
>  > "Technological Protection Measures" is a pretty "neutral"
>  > phrasing.
>  >
>  > "Technological" and "measure" are neutral, but "protection" is not;
>  > it's one of the terms we should decline to apply to describe what
>  > copyright does.
>  >
>  > I sometimes call them "technological restriction measures".
>
> Sasha Costanza-Chock
>
> schock AT riseup.net
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