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So web3 is about applying DRM on every type of content on the internet, not just video? That's sounds awful.

• Joeboy 5y ago
  For what it's worth, I believe that was Ted Nelson's vision for Project Xanadu[1] 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
  • woodruffw 5y ago
    One of Xanadu's goals was (is?) to uniquely identify documents, which isn't inherently tied to either access control or rights management. The process and theory of identifying documents is one of the oldest subjects of interest in library science[1], and the Internet is chock full of unique identification schemes (URIs, nominally, but also OIDs, DOIs, ORCIDs, &c.). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authority_control https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authority_control
    • Joeboy 5y ago
      I admit my eyes glazed over half way through, but this[1] seems to suggest their "transcopyright" system incorporates permissions and micropayment systems. [1] https://xanadu.com/tco/index.html https://xanadu.com/tco/index.html
      • woodruffw 5y ago
        Yeah, they've got a whole complicated permissions scheme that, to the best of my knowledge, does not and has never fully existed. The parts of Xanadu that do exist seem to be mostly "goodfaithware," if you'll excuse the term. It's not clear that they have any real protections (like DRM) against clients copying data and/or not obeying the unique addressing scheme.