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"Telegram Introduces DRM" Just want to point out that it's not actually DRM. Just Telegram giving users the option to prevent message recipients from downloadi
by gopkarthik 5y ago
"Telegram Introduces DRM"
Just want to point out that it's not actually DRM. Just Telegram giving users the option to prevent message recipients from downloading content.
- fsflover 5y agoHow is it different from DRM?
- Scharkenberg 5y agoIt doesn't prevent the user from accessing it "the wrong way", it just makes it inconvenient to save an external copy.
- fsflover 5y agoExactly as with DRM.
- Scharkenberg 5y agoOnly in the most liberal sense of the phrase "DRM" (which IMO would be a useless definition as many platforms/apps have analogous intentional and unintentional barriers, but they're not called "DRM"), but not DRM as we know it. While the decision is on the sender's side, a crucial distinction is that the sender enjoys the same power as the recipient in the conversation - very similar to information sharing between friends IRL. Calling it "DRM" is just pedantic.
- fsflover 5y ago> as many platforms/apps have analogous intentional and unintentional barriers Now, that I'm thinking about it, it seems that the new trend of hiding the files on the disk looks indeed like a light version of DRM preventing users from doing whatever they want with their data.
- AlfeG 5y agoSo every Authenticator app is implementing DRM?
- fsflover 5y agoDo they prevent the authenticated person from sharing the accessed data?
- comprev 5y agoSo you could say Telegram is giving users the option to digitally manage the usage rights of the content?
- sparkling 5y agoIt does not prevent anything, it just makes it inconvenient enough for the average user.
- Gigachad 5y agoNothing prevents anything. You could also disconnect the display and dump the raw data to capture the image.
- gopkarthik 5y agoWhich seems to be Telegram's goal here.
- 7v3x3n3sem9vv 5y agolike DRM?