Just as happened with copy protection of software, the technological battle between censors and circumventors will ebb and flow. Who knows how it will turn out? My hunch is that the decentralized structure of the Internet, and the sheer quantum of data flow probably gives the circumventors a long-term edge.
Predictor: Donham, Parker Barss
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 paper presented at the Symposium on Free Speech and Privacy in the Information Age, Parker Barss Donham, a staff writer for the Canadian edition of Reader’s Digest magazine, writes: ”Just as happened with copy protection of software, the technological battle between censors and circumventors will ebb and flow. Who knows how it will turn out? My hunch is that the decentralized structure of the Internet, and the sheer quantum of data flow probably gives the circumventors a long-term edge.”
Date of prediction: November 24, 1994
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Censorship/Free Speech
Name of publication: The Symposium on Free Speech and Privacy in the Information Age
Title, headline, chapter name: An Unshackled Internet: If Joe Howe Were Designing Cyberspace
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
gopher://insight/mcmaster.ca/00/org/efc/sfsp/donham.txt
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