Privacy protection and copyright issues in networks and on the internet
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Privacy issues
- The DVD marking concept
- Attacks on copyright-marking schemes
- Content deniability â€" Steganography
- Association deniabilityâ€"Digital cash
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
SummaryCopyright and censorship are access control issues, concerned with limiting access to some information to people in a particular group. In the former case, the group consists of people who have paid for the bits in question; in the latter, they meet some other criterion. Privacy is largely an access control issue. It's about being able to limit the number of people who can see who you're exchanging email with, what you're reading and what music you're listening to. In theory, there is no compelling reason why they should be in conflict, and in the pre-electronic world, they usually weren't Copyright was protected by the cost of small-scale duplication; it was simpler and cheaper to buy a book or a record than to make a single copy, and people who made large numbers of copies could usually be tracked down and prosecuted.
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