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Isn't it trivial to reverse engineer the DRM module to create its clean room open source implementation thus effectively deprecating it?
by jakobdabo 10y ago
Isn't it trivial to reverse engineer the DRM module to create its clean room open source implementation thus effectively deprecating it?
- wmf 10y agoAnd then it's trivial for the DRM creator to sue you under the DMCA. I also suspect that CDMs can update (this is called "renewability" in DRM newspeak).
- besselheim 10y agoIf the reversing and reimplementation happens outside of the US you can avoid the DMCA issue entirely. Or take steps to publish anonymously.
- slrz 10y agoYou probably should also give up on going to any conferences on US soil in the future.
- besselheim 10y agoThat's true, they treated Sklyarov most unfairly, given that it was entirely legal in his home country.
- majewsky 10y agoThat's the large problem here. If you wanted to get the content out, it would be more effective to obtain a HDCP master key, since that one is embedded in a lot of deployed physical devices and thus cannot be easily changed (AFAIK). A CDM in a webbrowser can be updated today and content distributors could stop using the old key tomorrow already.
- yAnonymous 10y agoDRM in games has gotten to the point where reverse engineering is almost impossible. Obfuscation works.