Re: DMCA Infringement

["hall, rand" <rand () MERRIMACK EDU>]

A very timely question.

Christian Smith just released "Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging
Adulthood" which talks about the difficulty young people have making moral
decisions.

The Economist has a review today (dated tomorrow). The reviewer's
distillation:

"In the guise, often, of teaching tolerance, we are failing to ensure that
our children understand how to frame moral issues and make judgments about
right conduct and about what is good in life."

The NY Times had an Op-Ed piece on Monday that said, in part:

"The interviewers asked open-ended questions about right and wrong, moral
dilemmas and the meaning of life. In the rambling answers, which Smith and
company recount in a new book, “Lost in Transition,” you see the young
people groping to say anything sensible on these matters. But they just
don’t have the categories or vocabulary to do so.

"When asked to describe a moral dilemma they had faced, two-thirds of the
young people either couldn't answer the question or described problems that
are not moral at all, like whether they could afford to rent a certain
apartment or whether they had enough quarters to feed the meter at a parking
spot."

Rand

Rand P. Hall
Director, Network Services                 askIT!
Merrimack College
978-837-3532
rand.hall () merrimack edu

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Ozzie Paez <ozpaez () sprynet com> wrote:

> This is an area that is of great interest to me as a systems engineer and
> senior business process analyst who provides input into administrative
> program designs, security, etc.  The role of culture as an enabler and
> barrier is of critical importance, particularly on university campuses
> because technology has compressed generations from a traditional fifteen
> years to something less than five.  A colleague of mine and I had a paper
> published this year by Rhodes University in South Africa that dealt with
> this issue, which is one of many they face as a cross-road center of
> culture, geography, etc.  In any event, does anyone know of a cultural
> survey or surveys that have been carried out recently to evaluate student
> attitudes towards security, including compliance with laws and regulations
> such as DMCA?
>
> Years ago, IBM screamed, yelled and threatened to get users of their
> 'flexible storage disks' to stop calling them Floppy Disks (and the
> original
> 8.5" and 10" ones really flopped!).  History shows that they failed because
> it had caught on with the culture, particularly at Universities.  So, I'm
> wondering about the magnitude and shifts in the cultural patterns behind
> issues such as DMCA compliance.
>
> Regards to all,
>
> Ozzie Paez
> SSE
> www.ozziepaezdecisions.comm
> 303-332-5363