Article: 'Designed to 'effectively frustrate': copyright, technology and the agency of users" by Tarleton Gillespie

I read an article about copyright, technology and the agency of users which talks about the big US movie and music companies attempting to shift copyright enforcement from the ‘code’ of law to the ‘code’ of software . This means using the actual technologies to control or prevent the use of content usually controlled by the usual law.
The article talks about ‘compliance rules’ to be carried out by manufacturers that state what a user can or cant do, and ‘robustness’ rules, which mean manufacturers need to make products that cant be tampered with.

In looking particularly at the Content Scramble System (CSS) encryption system and the ‘broadcast flag’ that’s been recently put forward for digital tv, the author of this article says that in trying to put a stop to piracy, these systems could undermine the agency and creativity of user’s with their own technological devices.

I thought this was an interesting article that relates well to the course material about the impact of copyright on users of technology.

Check it out through the uni's 'Learn' website, e journal called 'new media and society', vol 8(4), 2006