Giving Sharers Ears Without Faces
Xeni Jardin,
Wired News,
Jul 01, 2003
This - and not portable user logins, such as are instantiated in Shibboleth or Passport - is the wave of the future. After all, we do not sign in when we buy a coffee at a local 7-Eleven. Why should we give out our identity when we purchase, or otherwise access, something of even lower value, like a song? Digital rights developers need to think about this long and hard: that user mistrust of content providers runs even more deeply (especially after the recent spate of lawsuits) than the providers' distrust of users, and any DRM system will have to take this into account, protecting the user's privacy and identity.
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