[Ecommerce] Vista a Threat to Internet Freedom?

[Jeff Williams]

All,

  Very disconcerting and even dangerous...

See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6325353.stm

"BBC columnist Bill Thompson warns readers that new DRM technology,
especially that found in Vista, is damaging the freedoms that the
internet was based on. "The freedom of expression that was once
available to users of the Internet Protocol is being stripped away.
Our freedom to play, experiment, share and seek inspiration from
the creative works of others is increasingly restricted so that
large companies can lock our culture down for their own profit. [...]
governments and corporations around the world are making a
concerted effort to dismantle the open internet and replace it
with a regulated and regulable one that will allow them to
impose an 'architecture of control.'"

Regards,

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Jeffrey A. Williams
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