These past weeks have presented some interesting stories about how the intersecting effects of cloud storage, digital distribution, and copy protection are rapidly eroding long-standing expectations of the ways we can make use of copyrighted creative works--both others, and our own.
From Occupy Sopa, to Megauploadgate, to the vagaries of Steam, this episode of The Commute airs some initial thoughts on a state of affairs where, whether by government action or private end user license agreement, access to one's own information and lawfully made purchases can be severed without much practical recourse.
(And, in a bit of meta-commentary, the episode itself is also severed into two parts, due to a combination of technical inanity and my own reluctance to invest the time to figure out how to patch it back together).
Hope to be able to expand on this topic a little further in future posts. As always, comments welcome at podcastthecommute@gmail.com
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