Re: [projectvrm] An author's personal IP store in the cloud

[John Light < >]

It sounds like, in addition to a personal data store of sorts, you're suggesting some kind of DRM on "intellectual property". Well, we've seen how successful that has been so far... once there are bits on someone's computer it's difficult to stop them from copying those bits and sharing them with whoever they like. Is there anything substantially different technologically about what you're suggesting from what has already been tried before? 


This conversation is not private unless it's encrypted. By default, an email is more like a postcard than a letter in an envelope. Use my public key to encrypt private messages to me using public key cryptography software such as PGP or GPG and include your public key with your message so I can encrypt my response. 

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Crosbie Fitch < " target="_blank"> > wrote:

Wouldn't it be great if an author could have some place in the cloud where
they could put all their intellectual property, all their novels, poems,
reviews, etc.

And moreover, it'd be great if this place let them control who could access
their IP, and control who could share it with whom.

Obviously, it'd be important to ensure that if any sharing did occur by
those the author had permitted to do so, that it was secured with
unbreakable public key encryption technology - to prevent eavesdroppers
obtaining their property without permission.

Then, the author might make a living once again, instead of everyone
stealing their property as they do today.