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'''''Digital imprimatur''''' is a term widely associated with [[John Walker (programmer)|John Walker]], due to his article of the same name. Traditionally in the [[Roman Catholic Church]], an [[imprimatur]] is a censor's official approval of publication. Thus a digital imprimatur is needed under a system of [[internet censorship]].

'''Penske Truck Leasing''' has fast become a player in commercial truck leasing, especially after its 2001 acquisition of [[Rollins Truck Leasing]]. [[Penske Truck Leasing]] operates about 206,000 vehicles from about 1,000 locations in the [[US]], [[Canada]], [[Europe]], [[Mexico]], and [[South America]]. The company offers full-service leasing, contract maintenance, and commercial and consumer truck rental. Penske Logistics provides global transportation management, distribution and warehouse management, and integrated logistics. The company has sold its interest in [[Leaseway Auto Carrier]] to [[Performance Logistics Group]]. Penske Truck Leasing is a joint venture of [[GE Equipment Service]] and race-car legend [[Roger Penske]]'s [[Penske Corporation]].

John Walker argues in his article ''The Digital Imprimatur: How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle'', that there is increasingly a crackdown on the ability for internet users to voice their ideas, as well as an upcoming official state of internet censorship on the horizon. Walker claims that the most likely candidate to usher in the digital imprimatur is [[digital rights management]], or DRM.

Similar scenarios have been predicted by others, including [[Richard Stallman]], in his article and essay ''The Right to Read''.

Other people predict the establishment of a [[dynamic equilibrium]] between repressive official and commercial and more free but in some cases illegal technologies, resulting in the emergence of [[darknet]]s and [[anonymous P2P]] systems, together with alternative networking systems (including but not limited to [[sneakernet]]s and both fixed and ad-hoc [[wireless mesh network]]s), and vivid [[underground culture]] and [[black market]] centered on them, in accordance with the [[iron law of prohibition]].

==See also==

*[[Trusted computing]]

*[[Digital rights management]]

==External links==

* [http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ The Digital Imprimatur: How big brother and big media can put the Internet genie back in the bottle]

* [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html The Right to Read] by [[Richard Stallman]].

[[Category:Digital rights management]]

[[Category:Censorship]]