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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:04:16 -0800
Subject: [CISSP-D] REVIEW: "Darknet", J. D.
Lasica
BKDRKNET.RVW
20050603
"Darknet", J. D. Lasica, 2005, 0-471-68334-5,
U$25.95/C$33.99/UK#16.99
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%T "Darknet: Hollywood's
War Against the Digital Generation"
The introduction defines a darknet
as a collective system for sharing
media files, especially those involved
with the removal or
circumvention of copy protection technologies. As
such, it is
basically what is also referred to as a file sharing or
peer-to-peer
(in the non-technical sense) network, and later the book says
that
*the* "Darknet" is the merging of all such networks. Lasica
also
notes other possible implications of the term Darknet, such as
the
fear that excessive copyright and digital rights restrictions
may
having a chilling effect on creativity and free speech. (Neither
the
consistency of capitalization nor the usage of the term darknet
become
any more definite as the book progresses.)
Chapter one
provides some stories from the world of "personal media":
works created by
individuals. There is not much analysis of the
content, although there
are lots of anecdotes and quotes. Gambits,
particularly by movie
producers, to extend copyright protections and
restrict use, are covered in
chapter two. "Release groups," discussed
in chapter three, break copy
protection and distribute new movies over
the net. Personal media gets
more coverage in chapter four. Chapters
five and six review various
new technologies, first for compression
and transmission, then for modified
usage, such as systems that
automatically "G-rate" restricted movies.
The point of chapter six is
somewhat confused, and this turmoil is even more
evident in chapter
seven, where accounts of people doing "good works" with
pirated
material seems to be intended to raise some kind of issue with
respect
to copyright. (Lasica has a brief mention of a new kind of
fair use
which he calls "digital rights," but the topic is
abandoned
undefined.) Chapter eight is back to personal media (with
personal
broadcasting), and nine has more modified use technologies such
as
TiVO, ad skipping, and modified pay-per-view. Music gets
special
attention in chapters ten and eleven, first with collections
and
playlists, and then with modified use. Chapter twelve provides
some
historical notes on early file sharing networks. Gaming, and
the
trading of game "content," is discussed in chapter thirteen.
And
there is yet one more run at "personal media" in chapter
fourteen.
As can be seen by the outline, the same themes and topics tend
to be
repeated several times. The stories are easy to read, but the
social
ramifications promised in the early parts of the text do
not
materialize. The narratives are fun, but there is nothing here
that
hasn't been said before in the mass of magazine articles that
have
been written on the subject.
copyright Robert M. Slade,
2005 BKDRKNET.RVW
20050603
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