On May 29, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
Jerry Leichter leich...@lrw.com writes:
For the most part, software like this aims to keep reasonably honest
people honest. Yes, they can probably hire someone to hack around
the
licensing software. (There's generally not much motivation
John Gilmore wrote:
...
PPS: On a consulting job one time, I helped my customer patch out the
license check for some expensive Unix circuit simulation software they
were running. They had bought a faster, newer machine and wanted to
run it there instead of on the machine they'd bought the
Their product inserts program code into
existing applications to make those applications monitor and report
their own usage and enforce the terms of their own licenses, for
example disabling themselves if the central database indicates that
their licensee's
Jerry Leichter leich...@lrw.com writes:
For the most part, software like this aims to keep reasonably honest
people honest. Yes, they can probably hire someone to hack around the
licensing software. (There's generally not much motivation for J
Random User to break this stuff, since it
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 18:49 -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
It's a little hard to help without knowing more about the situation.
I.e. is this a software company? Hardware? Music? Movies?
Documents? E-Books?
It's a software company.
Is it trying to prevent access to something, or
the
John Gilmore wrote:
It's only the DRM fanatics whose installed bases of customers
are mentally locked-in despite the crappy user experience (like
the brainwashed hordes of Apple users, or the Microsoft victims)
who are troublesome. In such cases, the community should
I assume the Apple
The introduction of the acronym DRM has drawn all the hysteria it
always does.
The description you've posted much more closely matches license (or
sometimse entitlement) management software than DRM. There are many
companies active in this field. Many are small, but Microsoft sells
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Darren J Moffat darren.mof...@sun.com wrote:
John Gilmore wrote:
It's only the DRM fanatics whose installed bases of customers
are mentally locked-in despite the crappy user experience (like
the brainwashed hordes of Apple users, or the Microsoft victims)
who
This is getting a bit far afield from cryptography, but proper threat
analysis is still relevant.
On May 27, 2009, at 4:07 AM, Ray Dillinger wrote:
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 18:49 -0700, John Gilmore wrote:
It's a little hard to help without knowing more about the situation.
I.e. is this a
It's a little hard to help without knowing more about the situation.
I.e. is this a software company? Hardware? Music? Movies?
Documents? E-Books? Is it trying to prevent access to something, or
the copying of something? What's the something? What's the threat
model? Why is the company
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