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01-29-2009, 10:24 AM | #33 | |
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As long as a DRM-locked document can still be reproduced, even through scanning, DRM is ultimately an ineffective tool. |
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02-03-2009, 10:33 AM | #34 |
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The FTC has extended the deadline for comments to February 9th.
If you haven't gotten a comment in yet, you still have a chance! |
02-03-2009, 01:28 PM | #35 | |
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The basic premise is that person A "protects" something so that person B (the legitimate user) can access it, but that person C (the "pirate") can not. However, if B and C are the same person, then the DRM fails completely. It just becomes a cat and mouse game of different ways to access the content. There is no way that DRM can stop it. |
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02-03-2009, 01:52 PM | #36 |
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Yeah, most of the time when someone mentions a "crack" what they mean is an unrestricted unlocker—feed it the encrypted file plus your authorized eReader credit card number, or your authorized Mobipocket device ID, and it spits out an unlocked copy for you instead of only opening it enough for you to read.
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02-12-2009, 04:28 PM | #37 |
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Just thought folks might be interested to know that the FTC has apparently received 700 public comments about DRM.
I clicked on a few of them at random, and found they were by and large anti-DRM. I didn't really have time to go through them all. |
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I will note that mine was not there. i don't know why. I sent it to the proer email address....
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maybe there are other comments which are not public, and yours is among them ? or maybe they haven't posted everything yet ? i hope so. it was a good letter, and it would really be a shame if it weren't included.
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...so far. i think it will happen sooner or later.
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a lot of people have tried to crack Adobe but no one yet. It seems to be pretty solid and publishers seem to be betting it won't be. The idea that it is only a matter of time may be true but then we all may be long dead when it happens.
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it might be a lot closer than you think though. all it takes is one person to figure it out.
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