Comments on: Using the Market to Counter Surveillance http://techliberation.com/2007/07/16/using-the-market-to-counter-surveillance/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Sat, 26 May 2012 17:40:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steve R. http://techliberation.com/2007/07/16/using-the-market-to-counter-surveillance/comment-page-1/#comment-49530 Steve R. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:24:49 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/07/16/using-the-market-to-counter-surveillance/#comment-49530 <p>The issue of printer cartridges and consumer activism turns out to be much more complex. <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/polls.php?qid=internetconcern&op=voteprocess&seeresults=See+Results" rel="nofollow">Techdirt</a> is running a poll. The pole asks which of the following six topics worries you the most. One of the responses is government surveillance the other is draconian DRM. <a href="" rel="nofollow">Cnet</a> recently ran an article on how the print manufactures are now attempting to make it "illegal" for you to refill your ink cartridge. So here we have a case of calling for consumer activism to stop spying while the ink manufactures are attempting to reduce consumer rights.<br><br><br>My answer to the Techdirt pole? Government spying at the fundamental is innocuous since it is not meant to be an active program at eliminating your rights whereas the print manufactures actually seek to change the law so that existing rights become illegal.<br></br></p> The issue of printer cartridges and consumer activism turns out to be much more complex. Techdirt is running a poll. The pole asks which of the following six topics worries you the most. One of the responses is government surveillance the other is draconian DRM. Cnet recently ran an article on how the print manufactures are now attempting to make it “illegal” for you to refill your ink cartridge. So here we have a case of calling for consumer activism to stop spying while the ink manufactures are attempting to reduce consumer rights.


My answer to the Techdirt pole? Government spying at the fundamental is innocuous since it is not meant to be an active program at eliminating your rights whereas the print manufactures actually seek to change the law so that existing rights become illegal.

]]> By: Steve R. http://techliberation.com/2007/07/16/using-the-market-to-counter-surveillance/comment-page-1/#comment-38898 Steve R. Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:24:49 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/07/16/using-the-market-to-counter-surveillance/#comment-38898 <p>The issue of printer cartridges and consumer activism turns out to be much more complex. <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/polls.php?qid=internetconcern&op=voteprocess&seeresults=See+Results" rel="nofollow">Techdirt</a> is running a poll. The pole asks which of the following six topics worries you the most. One of the responses is government surveillance the other is draconian DRM. <a href="" rel="nofollow">Cnet</a> recently ran an article on how the print manufactures are now attempting to make it "illegal" for you to refill your ink cartridge. So here we have a case of calling for consumer activism to stop spying while the ink manufactures are attempting to reduce consumer rights.<br /></p> <p>My answer to the Techdirt pole? Government spying at the fundamental is innocuous since it is not meant to be an active program at eliminating your rights whereas the print manufactures actually seek to change the law so that existing rights become illegal.</p> The issue of printer cartridges and consumer activism turns out to be much more complex. Techdirt is running a poll. The pole asks which of the following six topics worries you the most. One of the responses is government surveillance the other is draconian DRM. Cnet recently ran an article on how the print manufactures are now attempting to make it “illegal” for you to refill your ink cartridge. So here we have a case of calling for consumer activism to stop spying while the ink manufactures are attempting to reduce consumer rights.

My answer to the Techdirt pole? Government spying at the fundamental is innocuous since it is not meant to be an active program at eliminating your rights whereas the print manufactures actually seek to change the law so that existing rights become illegal.

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