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Amazon once “pulled a book off your library shelf”—Vint Cerf, a pioneer of the internet, calls it shocking. How did the web drift so far from its roots?

Hear Cerf (Google), Cindy Cohn (EFF), Jon Stokes (Ars Technica) & the Internet Archive’s Brewster Kahle explore the past, present & future of the web on the Future Knowledge podcast.


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https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/the-open-web-at-a-crossroads-a-conversation-with-vint-cerf-brewster-kahle-cindy-cohn-jon-stokes

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Dec 17 at 6:01pmWeb
Show threadEarthshineDec 17
@internetarchive @brewsterkahle "and of course it was 1984 which made it even more cool" -- funny yet unexpected quip out of the speaker
Show threadLukefromDCDec 17
@internetarchive @brewsterkahle this is why it is so important to either not buy any DRM media at all, or immediately crack and back up anything you do have. Amazon cannot delete a cracked and renamed file and sure as hell cannot access it on an offline backup
Show threadGrinning Cat   🚫👑Dec 17

@internetarchive @brewsterkahle

Relevant:

"Do i really own the digital media i bought?"

https://www.digitalrightsbytes.org/topics/wait-i-don-t-own-the-digital-downloads-i-buy

"...you can’t trade your stuff in, give it away, or sell it. It also means it can disappear at any time...."

(From EFF)

#music #books #movies #media #DigitalRights