Comments on: My Proposal for DRM http://www.joestump.net/2005/02/my-proposal-for-drm.html Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:06:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Mark Stanislav http://www.joestump.net/2005/02/my-proposal-for-drm.html#comment-2572 Mark Stanislav Sun, 20 Feb 2005 05:24:07 +0000 http://www.joestump.net/2005/02/my-proposal-for-drm.html#comment-2572 While that does sound nice -- it's actually completely useless. How are you going to prove that the file isn't tampered with? Digital signatures with SHA-1? (heh). The point is, there are never going to be correct DRM implementations that I can forsee without having every device you own verifying their validity. If I can edit the bits of the file to change the name... you lose. If I strip the bits out of the file altogether... you lose. How would you feel if you were being told that a file with your name on it was being distributed around, be indicted, only to waste legal fees and time to get cleared of charges. Apple's DRM can do this kind of thing because their format only works with their software and players. If you want a DRM that can stretch across the board like this, but not have any restrictions... you are more so looking for Microsoft universal DRM. Either we control our content with restrictions -- or we are controlled by anyone with spare time and mallicious intent. DRM sucks, of course -- but if we are going to have to have DRM (which we are... and more of it), Apple's policy is still the BEST. Their fair-use has never impeded my life what-so-ever. While that does sound nice — it’s actually completely useless. How are you going to prove that the file isn’t tampered with? Digital signatures with SHA-1? (heh). The point is, there are never going to be correct DRM implementations that I can forsee without having every device you own verifying their validity.

If I can edit the bits of the file to change the name… you lose. If I strip the bits out of the file altogether… you lose. How would you feel if you were being told that a file with your name on it was being distributed around, be indicted, only to waste legal fees and time to get cleared of charges.

Apple’s DRM can do this kind of thing because their format only works with their software and players. If you want a DRM that can stretch across the board like this, but not have any restrictions… you are more so looking for Microsoft universal DRM.

Either we control our content with restrictions — or we are controlled by anyone with spare time and mallicious intent. DRM sucks, of course — but if we are going to have to have DRM (which we are… and more of it), Apple’s policy is still the BEST. Their fair-use has never impeded my life what-so-ever.

]]> By: Adam Hopkins http://www.joestump.net/2005/02/my-proposal-for-drm.html#comment-2571 Adam Hopkins Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:12:09 +0000 http://www.joestump.net/2005/02/my-proposal-for-drm.html#comment-2571 Just as long as I can rip the watermark off and download the music off Kazaa, they can do whatever they want. ;) Just as long as I can rip the watermark off and download the music off Kazaa, they can do whatever they want. ;)

]]> By: Jay Briggs http://www.joestump.net/2005/02/my-proposal-for-drm.html#comment-2570 Jay Briggs Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:13:04 +0000 http://www.joestump.net/2005/02/my-proposal-for-drm.html#comment-2570 The only problem that I can see with that watermark is somebody will learn how to get it and use it for some other reason. The only problem that I can see with that watermark is somebody will learn how to get it and use it for some other reason.

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