Re: the awakening, license changes and so on...

Reimar Döffinger <[email protected]> Wed, 04 Aug 2004 20:07:42 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.mplayer.g2.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

> Anyway, DRM cannot work, so don't fear it tooo much.  Any encryption
> scheme where the receiver and the attacker are the same person is
> bound to fail.  In this context Cory Doctorow's talk to M$ employees
> "Microsoft Research DRM talk" is quite enlightening (and entertaining)
> as well:

Well, it works in the same way as Microsoft's other "security" things:=20
by obfuscation. That can "work" as long as you can invest a lot more on=20
further obfucscation than anyone else on trying to understand. Although=20
from a theoretical standpoint DRM is a real big joke. On thinking twice=20
it is from any standpoint, and from most a really bad one...

Greetings,
Reimar D=F6ffinger