Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Battle Heats Up Over Rights

Globe, Mail, Sept 11, 2002

This article is a good harbinger of some of the technology battles to come. These battles will spill over into the educational arena - for example, course designers may find themselves unable to write software or multimedia that will run on students' machines equipped with Microsoft's copy protection mechanisms. "Maintaining that these systems are needed to impede hackers, proponents say they could help restore law and order in a world where digital piracy is rampant. Critics counter that the technologies are part of an industry power-play that would end the freewheeling culture of information-sharing that now exists over the Internet."

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