[cap-talk] Capabilities and Freedom vs. Safety

[Pierre THIERRY]

Scribit James A. Donald dies 22/07/2007 hora 15:55:
> The you have to download music, then run another program to play what
> you just downloaded - you the human has to transport information
> between these two programs by hand.

Oh my, how hard would it be to write an interface to connect them.

> An all in one program provides substantial convenience.

Not really, because this comes at the cost of security.

> More convenient to play as it is being downloaded, and after the song
> is finished, decide to add it to your file collection, or not.

Which you can do in my POLA scenario: either just ask to play the file
as it is downloaded, or add a small streaming program that reads the
file as it is downloaded and makes it available to the player program.

> And then of course you want to browse your file collection.
> Inconvenient to switch programs at that point.

Depends on the interface.

> You could browse it with the standard file powerbox, in which case the
> program would only detect copyrighted music when asked to play it,
> though that would be bad enough

You already forgot that the playing program can't tell anyone. Only the
download program barely could.

> but it is useful to browse your music file collection organized as
> music, in which case the program would need to be empowered to detect
> all of it.

But if the music browsing program contains spyware code, it's still
useless for spying, as it has no authority to communicate to the outside
world...

Practically,
Pierre
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