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> The weakness is insoluble. Unless nodes run 24x7 for LONG periods,
and
> encrypt the entire store with an ephemeral key, thus wiping it on > startup. It is not 'insoluble' in the sense of what I just said; that you have to
make it so hard, they won't see any benefit in wasting effort in it. Maybe a
perfect solution will not be possible, but that isn't needed here.
There have been suggestions, which you found to be
'not good enough'...but maybe you are taking the wrong premisse and focussing
too much on an absolute way of solving it.
If you just make it hard enough so the wasted
effort/money/etc. outweighs the benefits they get from it, you have already
won.
In fact, seeing it in the context of an eternal
cat&mouse game, even my first example of making something light as an extra
layer may well do the trick, provided you make it modular and easily
changeable.
You were right they may make an easy tool... but
it's still not clear if they can force you to run a third-party tool (without
court-order). I think they can't, at least not in my country. And if they have
to get a courtorder every time they want to compel someone to run their tool,
the costs will vastly outweigh the benefits, which will mean we win. It's
also not clear if they can even make such a tool to bypass the encryptionlayer,
even in the USA, because that would violate the DMCA which they themselves
helped lobby. It clearly makes it illegal to bypass such a thing, and they
still have not THAT much power they can compel someone to do illegal things in
the name of copyright-infringement. Certainly, courts can order to do so,
but then (again), their incentive will become obsolete.
But even if none of the above would count; if you
made it modular and easy to remove/reinstall, then you could simply play along
in the cat&mouse game, and everytime they managed to get a tool out, replace
the system with a new module, so they can start over again.
I'm just saying; maybe you are bit too pessimistic.
You can call it snake oil to shrug it off, but if it manages to make things hard
enough as to be not beneficial (for them) anymore, Mr.Riaa and co will not have
enough incentive to go for it.
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