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This could be extended to the ephemeral nature of digital formats and their co-dependence on certain execution environments. As much as I love this example I do
by mentat 12y ago
This could be extended to the ephemeral nature of digital formats and their co-dependence on certain execution environments. As much as I love this example I don't think it's DRM specific.
- coldtea 12y agoIt doesn't have to be DRM specific to be a flaw of DRM use. Plus, there are formats that would be able to be read a trillion years for now. Plain utf-8 or ascii text for one.
- trhway 12y ago>This could be extended to the ephemeral nature of digital formats and their co-dependence on certain execution environments. there is significant difference - knowing the format (or even just basic principles of the format like in case of compression) one can restore the content ( http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/ http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/ ), while in DRM case knowing format isn't enough. Another illustration - one can apply some analysis and probably read lost ancient language texts while it is fundamentally different from reading cyphertext even in known language. I.e. DRM is intentionally and explicitly converts "information" into highest entropy content, i.e. "erases" the "information". Basically what flame does to human artifacts.