On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 04:24:32PM +0200, Lourens Veen wrote: > How about this one then. You want to order a video card from the > Traversal Technology web shop. For that, the shop needs your address, > so they can send you the package, and your credit card number, so they > can charge you. Of course, you don't want them to pass on that > information to anyone else. So, you encrypt it, and require them to use > software that won't let them do anything with the information but send > you a package and charge you. > > Of course, they would have to agree to use such software, and it would > have to be open source so that you could check whether it works > correctly.
If the software is free (|| open source) to them, there's nothing stopping them from modifying it, and the situation is the same as without DRM: you have to trust whomever you trade with. In fact, I think it's probably better if they're bound to not give away your personal information, rather than them being bound to be *unable* to give your personal information away: in both cases, they're promising to refrain from some action that's easily possible. Better then to give them greater capabilities, since the DRM-infested software is a (proper) subset of all software performing those particular actions you mention, and by not restricting themselves to DRM-infested software, there's more supply, and hence lower prices, hopefully to the benefit of the consumer. -- See the hash key is bollocks: I press it... no hash.
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