Um. This one was long. We had a group present on Thursday the "World Without Secrets."
The gist of the whole book seemed to be how the digital age is changing our everyday lives.
I mean the entire book covered chapter by chapter how we are being "watched" every step of the way (and if we aren't being watching doing something, don't worry--the technology to watch you is coming!). Ordering a book online? They're there! Driving your car down the street? We see you! Big Brother is watching....
lol. Ok, so I'm not so doom and gloom on the whole "Big Brother" is watching thing: to me it's progression, an advancement in technology. I for one am "for" most of those advancements. Still, they brought up a good point later in the book regarding a digital Pearl Harbor.
As with any other significant change in history, there has to be a significant threat. The bring up Pearl Harbor for a reason: our significant loss gave us the strength to change our strategies and turn the war. Not having any significant, credible cyber threat has made "significant" changes in digital security difficult (according to the author).
Hmm, I don't know. I don't think summarizing their presentation of a summary really makes sense. This book seemed to provide a broad base to everything going on, but it was hard to hold on to the information. Maybe it was because the presentation was really long or because to me the book was not something I was interested in. I hate to say that, but I doubt I would pick the book of for casual reading, whereas I felt that I could have done that on our group's presented book.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Group Presentation # 1
One of the Group's in our class presented on a book called "Steal This File Sharing Book: What They Won't Tell You About File Sharing."
Ok, I had to laugh at the title. I mean it was a user's guide on how to download music, files, movies, etc. from the Internet. What was interesting was how the people responsible for policing the Internet and this type of downloading are starting to come around. They are figuring out that "Hey we can't stop this, so how do we get around it?"
I was reading recently about how DRM encryption is starting to go away as producers of digital media are trying to figure out and implement SaaS with subscriptions ("welcome to the cloud!") rather than file by file purchases.
The funny thing is last night I saw a preview for a new movie coming out on Blu-Ray and it included a Disney movie file you could transfer to your computer, phone, media device, etc. to watch the movie. They already figured someone would rip it, so canned the cost of trying to implement DRM software and just said "Here take it, matter of fact we'll make it easier."
But the presentation was a nice flow of historical progression, from Napster to Kazaa to all the other filesharing sites, of how the online community responded/is responding to the changes in DRM and how "they" (the online community) can pass around the information. Furthermore, they presented on the wide variety of available download sites out there as well as differentiating between them (newsgroups/ftps/SuperNodes/etc).
Ok, I had to laugh at the title. I mean it was a user's guide on how to download music, files, movies, etc. from the Internet. What was interesting was how the people responsible for policing the Internet and this type of downloading are starting to come around. They are figuring out that "Hey we can't stop this, so how do we get around it?"
I was reading recently about how DRM encryption is starting to go away as producers of digital media are trying to figure out and implement SaaS with subscriptions ("welcome to the cloud!") rather than file by file purchases.
The funny thing is last night I saw a preview for a new movie coming out on Blu-Ray and it included a Disney movie file you could transfer to your computer, phone, media device, etc. to watch the movie. They already figured someone would rip it, so canned the cost of trying to implement DRM software and just said "Here take it, matter of fact we'll make it easier."
But the presentation was a nice flow of historical progression, from Napster to Kazaa to all the other filesharing sites, of how the online community responded/is responding to the changes in DRM and how "they" (the online community) can pass around the information. Furthermore, they presented on the wide variety of available download sites out there as well as differentiating between them (newsgroups/ftps/SuperNodes/etc).
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