This document discusses several attempts at digital rights management and online privacy systems that ultimately failed:
1. ECMS and IMPRIMATUR aimed to protect and trade intellectual property online but failed to gain adoption.
2. The Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) launched in 1998 to protect digital music but was forced to suspend work in 2001 due to technological limitations.
3. The Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) was intended to help parents filter content but became seen as a tool for censorship and was discontinued.
4. The Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) aimed to standardize website privacy policies but failed to be adopted widely and "infomediaries" using it like
10. ¡±Eventually IMPRIMATUR will devise and
recommend processes to protect and
trade all types of intellectual property,
whereby rights are respected while user
needs are met.¡±
19. ¡±we urge you to withdraw the paper
submitted for the upcoming
Information Hiding Workshop,
assure that it is removed from the
Workshop distribution materials and
destroyed, and avoid a public
discussion of con?dential
information...¡±
27. ¡±...designed to help parents and
teachers control what children
access on the Internet...¡±
28. (category (transmit-as "SS~~002") (name "Heterosexual Themes")
(label
(name "Subtle Innuendo")
(description "Subtly Implied through the use of metaphor")
(value 1))
(label
(name "Strong Innuendo")
(description "Explicitly implied (not described) through the use of
metaphor")
(value 2))
(label
(name "Technical Reference")
(description "Dictionary, encyclopedic, news, medical references")
(value 3))
(label
(name "Non-Graphic-Artistic")
(description "Limited metaphoric descriptions used in a artistic fashion")
(value 4))
(label (name "Graphic-Artistic")
(description "Metaphoric descriptions used in a artistic fashion")
(value 5))
(label
(name "Graphic")
(description "Descriptions of intimate sexual acts")
(value 6))
(label
(name "Detailed Graphic")
(description "Descriptions of intimate details of sexual acts")
(value 7))
29. (label
(name "Explicit Vulgarity")
(description "Explicit Descriptions of intimate details of sexual acts
designed to
arouse. Inviting interactive sexual participation. Unsupervised Sexual Chat
Rooms or
Newsgroups")
(value 8))
(label
(name "Explicit and Crude")
(description "Profane Graphic Descriptions of intimate details of sexual
acts
designed to arouse. Inviting interactive sexual participation. Unsupervised
Sexual Chat
Rooms or Newsgroups")
(value 9)))
38. ¡±The Platform for Privacy
Preferences Project (P3P)
enables Websites to express their
privacy practices in a standard
format that can be retrieved
automatically and interpreted
easily by user agents.¡±
41. ¡±P3P is the software equivalent of
Mr. Potato Head. It is an engineer's
vision of how humans decide who to
trust and what to tell about
themselves. It has a set of data
elements and neatly interlocking
parts, and it has nothing at all to do
with how people establish trust.¡±