David J Porter wrote: > > Does anyone know of any efforts to construct a transparent (i.e. Open > Source / Royalty Free) Digital Rights Management system?
Is it even possible to construct one? In the end, you are just trying to control a stream of bits. At some point those bits have to be interpreted in their intended form (music/page of a book/image/whatever). You only need one hacker (or cracker, if you prefer) to intercept the intepretation (or decoding) of the bits and the information is "liberated". This is a major "problem area" in the future, as more and more valuable stuff becomes digital. I do not see any feasible solution. I'm not really that knowledgable about it, so feel free to enlighten me... Cheers, -- Carl Cerecke, Assistant Lecturer|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Computer Science, |Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext. 7859 University of Canterbury, |Fax: +64 3 364 2569 Private Bag 4800, |http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~cdc Christchurch, New Zealand. |
