Paul Wallbank joins Tony Delroy to discuss how technology affects your business and life. For the November segment we look at the perils of digital rights management.
If you missed the spot, the podcast is available from the ABC Nightlife website and the answers to listeners’ questions is available in the following post.
We all value our collections of CDs, books and photos, but what happens when we completely lose the digital equivalents? Tonight on the Nightlife we look at who really owns e-books and computer programs.
Last month a story appeared on the Internet where Linn, a Norwegian lady, lost her entire collection of eBooks from her Kindle reader when Amazon decided she had breached their conditions.
- What happened to Linn and her ebook collection?
- How did Amazon respond when she complained?
- So who actually owns those ebooks?
- Is this shutting down of accounts common?
- At their big event a few weeks back Apple focused their iPads and iBooks on education, could this happen to schools?
- It’s not just ebooks though, can this happen with other online services?
- Is this a problem with cloud computing services?
- What about the data you’ve saved, do you lose that if the account is shut down?
- What about businesses and all the work they go to build a Facebook or Pinterest following, are those online friends the business’ property?
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Interesting show, but I was surprised to hear that the Bruce Willis suing Apple story is still going around! It was a hoax… http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/09/bruce-willis-not-suing-apple-after-all/
Yep, you’re absolutely right Kal. A listener raised the Bruce Willis story which, to be quite honest, I’d forgotten. Unfortunately it’s difficult to dial up the interwebs in the middle of a radio program but the details are here.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/sep/03/no-apple-bruce-willis
While Charles Arthur, the Guardian’s computer correspondent, can be abrasive at times he’s absolutely right to get cranky about the media regurgitating stories without checking their veracity.
Thanks for correcting the record.