iSummit08 keynote speech by Johanna Blakley

[Zoomatik]

I find it amazing that people put so much time and effort and thought into a project like this, create presentations, create websites... hold lectures... and in all this time completely miss the most obvious point: Fashion, furniture, auto-mobiles etc have copy-protection built in! You can't put a Prada shoe on a photocopier and produce a new identical Prada shoe. You can't take a picture of a sports car and have a laser printer print you a new car.

[Zoomatik]

There is a very good reason why other industries seek legal copy-protection: To deal with the fact that there is no inherent physical copy protection like there is in physical objects. You can digitally make identical copies of CDs, DVDs, (PDF) books etc. Nothing is stopping you.

Whether legal copy-protection actually works is another topic but this presentation misses the most basic nature of the industries it is talking about.

[skevosmavros]

I thought it was interesting to see this early version of this talk, which was more recently presented at TED (with better slides!). See the TED version on YouTube - watch?v=zL2FOrx41N0