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Dangers of Digital Rights Management

June 5, 2003

Over the past few days, I’ve been writ­ing about the Microsoft/AOL deal and why I think that it is a dan­ger­ous one to all of us. My core fear about the deal is that it will increase lock-up in the Inter­net space due to a new con­cept called Dig­i­tal Rights Man­age­ment. When using such a sys­tem, con­tent is encrypted […]

Mozilla after AOL

June 4, 2003

Over the past few days, I’ve been spend­ing time cov­er­ing what hap­pens now that AOL and Microsoft have set­tled their dis­pute. How­ever, one area that I have not cov­ered is what could hap­pen to Mozilla mov­ing for­ward. With the new agree­ment, AOL has received a royalty-free license to use Inter­net Explorer for the next seven years. Since […]

Microsoft Lock-in?

June 3, 2003

The recent announce­ment of a part­ner­ship between AOL Time Warner and Microsoft rep­re­sents an inter­est­ing new twist in the shap­ing of the Inter­net. For the past few years, Microsoft has been try­ing to fig­ure out how to remain rel­e­vant in an era of increas­ing open­ness. The rise of HTML and of HTTP as the under­ly­ing protocol […]

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