security vs DRM

Edward Welbourne <[email protected]> Sat, 09 Sep 2006 22:52:57 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.law.eucd.ukcdr
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bruce Schneier wryly observes <quote
src="http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71738-0.html?tw=wn_index_6">

  Any guess on how long it will take Microsoft to patch Media Player
  once again? And then how long before the FairUse4WM people update
  their own software?

  Certainly much less time than it will take Microsoft and the recording
  industry to realize they're playing a losing game, and that trying to
  make digital files uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet.

</quote> This relates to a war of patches between Mordor and some
(hopefully hard to sue) entity called FairUse4WM; the war, thus far, has
already exposed the nakedness of the emperor, as it concerns the monthly
patch charade - it has shown that Suaruon careth only as to show but not
as to effect, as concerns its customers' welfare, 'though it [*] sucketh
mightilie, and with eagerness, upon the great organ of the coprolyth [%]
lobbie.

[*] Some spellynges may be of debatable credibilitye, notwithstanding
    http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/
    (Whyche I do commende unto mine rederes.)
    My excuse is the lateness of the houre [%].
    The ethanol consumption hath nothinge to doe with it, ossifer [!]
[%] Errores are, consekwently, to be expected.
    As to forgiveness, the readeres disxretion is frie,

	E-Jit.
-- 
[!] An aquifer bears water (aqua).  Ergo, an ossifer bears bones.