Study: DRM makes pirates of us all -- CNET

In Cambridge professor's report, she lays out the effect DRM restrictions have--namely, that people are driven to download illegally.

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Obama Cybersecurity Report Addresses Critical Infrastructure and Privacy Issues -- Wired

A cybersecurity report published by the White House on Friday provides a list of wide-ranging guidelines advising President Barack Obama on how the government should proceed in its national plan to secure cyberspace.

It touches on everything from establishing communication networks for emergency response teams to the role government should play in the protection of critical infrastructure networks and whether or not entities that experience a breach should have to notify governments and law enforcement agencies. Privacy and civil liberties concerns receive a repeated nod, with privacy being mentioned in the report more than five dozen times.

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