Lourens Veen wrote:
On Thursday 19 April 2007 23:50, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
gary sheppard wrote:
Probably better think about DRM legalities.
This is something which I have considered. Vista uses DRM based on
system software. Some of it has already been cracked. This
probably hasn't pleased the relevant DRM groups. I think that it
would be possible for us to make a system where software could NOT
disable encryption. DRM questions would be handled by an
independent OTP MCU soldered and potted to the board and not using
any surface traces for control signals. IIUC, this would meet the
requirements of the license agreement. This would be much more
secure than Vista and I would hope that it would make the DRM
groups very happy since the integrity of encryption would not be
dependent on a software driver.
Of course, there is the question of whether we _want_ to make the DRM
groups happy. Making them happy seems to involve pissing off
legitimate customers of content.
I agree that DRM is bad. However, not being able to play DRMed disks is
worse.
This realisation seems to be dawning in the online music sector at
least, and DRM systems are starting to be disabled.
Yes, we keep repeating history. Remember copy protected floppies?
Perpetuating the myth of unhackable DRM will not do anybody any good.
This wouldn't mean that it couldn't be cracked, only that nobody could
use our hardware to bypass it like is currently done on Windows.
Well except for the makers of DRM systems.
I don't know what they will do now that it is possible to make
unencrypted copies of an encrypted HD-DVD on Windows. It seem to me
that it makes the whole thing useless. I haven't heard anything about
CSS lately. It is easy to download DeCSS and they don't seem to be
trying to sue anybody. They seem to have given up, but the DVDs are
still encrypted. Basically just stupid.
--
JRT
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