With Nude Media, All You Hold is But A Cache of What You Own

Darrell Berry — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 08:24:43 +0000

That’s the crucial fork between my view of digital media and the more traditional one (wherein MP3s, for example, replace vinyl as object in one’s possession). If your local copies are simply expedient cacheings of that to which what you’ve purchased rights, then restrictions on formats, limited freedoms of transcoding, and the other restrictions that are currently being wrapped into DRM, are obviously inappropriate, arbitrary restrictions the only benefit of which is to support particular business models.

This isn’t new news. But…

From Here to Where?

Darrell Berry — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:25:47 +0000

{Performance -> canned performance -> mass reproduction -> -> nude media -> -> -> what?}

Fetishism of the playlist (post-DJ culture, is everyone with a jog dial a performer)?

Fetishism of scarcity? What is scarce? Provenance {DRM -> digitally signed limited edition, patina of handlings transcribed via PKE}?

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With Nude Media, All You Hold is But A Cache of What You Own

From Here to Where?