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Open source and DRM are fundamentally incompatible—if neutering the DRM is a mere recompile away, what good is it to the sorts of organizations that require DRM
by ryanpetrich 14y ago
Open source and DRM are fundamentally incompatible—if neutering the DRM is a mere recompile away, what good is it to the sorts of organizations that require DRM?
- citricsquid 14y agoMy mistake, I should have said closed source.
- patrickaljord 14y agoIt's actually coming. If you go to about:flags in chrome, there's a flag called "Enable experimental Encrypted Media Extensions on the video elements.". * https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-media/encrypted-media.html https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-med... * https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2012-April/020174.html https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2012-April/020... * http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/23/microsoft_google_netflix_html5_drm_infection/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/23/microsoft_google_net...
- cpeterso 14y agoDRM'd media is encrypted and cannot be "neutered" if you don't have the decryption key. [Well-designed] DRM relies on secret keys, not secret source code.
- sp332 14y agoHere's the problem: either you have the decryption keys and can get to the content, or you don't and can't. If you can watch a movie on your computer, you already have everything you need to pirate the movie.
- cookiecaper 14y agoWhich, of course, is true for any cryptography, regardless of the openness of its implementation. It may be harder to keep the keys obscured in open code, but then the keys usually don't stay secret that long anyway.
- rabidsnail 14y agoXOR is the best DRM. Since all DRM is breakable since you need the decryption key to play the content, the purpose should be to trigger the copy-protection-protection stuff in the DMCA, and XOR is the simplest way to do that.