Today at the Berkman Center, we’re exploring Speedbumps, one of our five scenarios in the Digital Media
project. (Should it be called a “pothole,” not a
“speedbump”? Or “EZPass”?). It’s a 40-person gathering here in Pound Hall on
the HLS campus. Topics generally on the table: what do the
content industries really want — what’s digital media nirvana look
like? Is spoofing effective? Is traffic up or down on the
P2P networks, for music, movies, TV files? Is interdiction an
illegal denial of service attack? One aspect of speedbumps: could
we explore a research project that gave a very clear sense of what’s
really going on here?