"Automated DRM keeps spoiling the show, from the DNC to Mars" (Phipps-Samson)

[Gene Wirchenko]

Simon Phipps and Ted Samson, Robots aren't smart enough to decide if video
or song is used lawfully; instead of trying to improve content monitoring
software, we should look to ditch it, *InfoWorld*, 5 Sep 2012
http://www.infoworld.com/t/drm/automated-drm-keeps-spoiling-the-show-the-dnc-mars-201688

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Science-fiction fans from all over the world were avidly watching the live
broadcast of the Hugo Awards last Sunday from Chicon 7, the World Science
Fiction Convention in Chicago. This is a venerable event with much more
longevity than you might imagine: Attendees were celebrating the event's
70th year. One of the award winners, British author Neil Gaiman, was
recognized for a script for the cult BBC TV series "Doctor Who." Following
the showing of a clip from the episode, Gaiman took the podium for the award
ceremony to make his acceptance speech.

Then, however, the broadcast was abruptly cut off. A robot at Ustream,
presumably using data provided by the BBC, decided on the basis of that
short clip that this was an illegal broadcast of "Doctor Who" and pulled the
plug. Worse, it turned out that no one at the Hugo Awards or at Ustream was
empowered to turn it back on again.  Ustream has promised to upgrade its
robot to understand fair use, but the proposal is both ridiculous -- even
judges struggle with fair use arguments -- and dangerous.

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