I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this thread and have become more educated about the issues involved in DRM as a result. It's terrific that there are immensely qualified posters who are willing to engage willyhoops in this discussion. It is a compliment to this community that willyhoops is willing to voice a minority position opposed by many forum regulars.
I would like to see more discussion around the trust relationships and their security enforcement mechanisms, since that appears to me to be at the heart of this debate. Someone posted an anlogy to credit card/bank transactions initiated by the account holder and conducted with a vendor, so that the security model of 'hidden key' is a successful solution for that relationship. Does the community's interest in secure retail transactions mean that hackers are the only ones attempting to bypass the security in financial systems? Are record companies and copyright estates the only ones interested in a DRM system? Are there any other analagous relationships, however imperfect, that we might use to shed more light on the situation? -- mark-e-mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mark-e-mark's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4726 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34928 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
