Re: [OS:N:] Student "rights" thread

--- Jeff Kinz <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:14:59AM -0700, James Michael DuPont wrote:

[SNIP TO THE CHASE]

> > The ideas of watermarking and providing digitally encrypted,
> > watermarked, and signed content to the users of the system have
> occured
> > to me. Just because the file format is open does not mean it cannot
> be
> > secure. 
> It almost guarantees that the content can be redistributed at will.
> 
> > Imagine for example the possibility of delivery of the content not
> in
> > text format, but in a secure xml package.
> Just another form of encryption.  Since the format is open there will
> be
> multiple tools which can decrypt the content which can then be
> re-distributed at will.  If DRM was an easy simple thing to solve
> it would have already been solved.
> 
> > 
> > This is getting back to the issues of digital rights management and
> > elecronic books. 
> > 
> > The difference is that you can have an aggreement with the students
> > that creates a closed users group, you need to trust them. 
> > 
> > If you dont trust your students, then why do you want to use free
> > software to begin with? 
> 
> You are confusing software with "course content" again.  What
> software
> they use has nothing to do with the trust issue.  No matter what
> software is used, it is already known that digital content, in the
> clear, will be redistributed at will.

Ok, so distance learning is then completly incompatible with my
proposed basic "rights"?

mike

=====
James Michael DuPont
http://introspector.sourceforge.net/

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