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The exact same reason that current DRM is useless.
People who don't understand how this works keep thinking that all they need to do is come up with a better/stronger DRM model. The real issue is that no DRM model will solve the problem they are trying to solve. |
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However, in a nutshell (although I've explained this to you before on other threads), think of DRM like the lock on the front door of a rental property. That lock is designed to keep the bad guys (pirates) from getting inside and stealing all of the furniture (data). In order to rent the property to a tenant (customer) you give them the key to the front door so that they can get inside and have access to your furniture (data). Here's the catch. The lock on the front door does nothing to stop the tenant from stealing all of your furniture, no matter how strong of a lock you use. Digital data is the same way. There is no technological solution to the problem of granting access for legitimate uses and preventing access for illegitimate uses when both are being done by the same user. Once you give a key to a customer who buys your eBook, that customer is then free to pull out the text and put it up on a filesharing site. There is nothing DRM can do to stop them. The only way you can prevent piracy is to not give anyone a key to the file. But then you won't have any customers either. The whole notion of putting bigger/stronger DRM/biometrics/etc on digital files in an attempt to prevent piracy is an exercise in futility. You could require that a customer submit a DNA sample each time they want to open the data, it wouldn't matter. Once you let them in, they can take it and do whatever they want with it. |
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To follow up on Shaggy's excellent analogy (I'm going to steal that one), the breaker of ADE DRM has this to say:
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For those that insist on DRM, the only viable option I see is a model where you can only read while connected to the internet, so the program can query a server for the key. However, think of the bandwidth and storage costs to implement such a scheme. Last edited by MovieBird; 06-17-2010 at 05:48 PM. |
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![]() ![]() If I pay my hard earned money for something as nebulous as this playkey idea I would expect to be able to backup and recovery them. We can currently backup/recover DRM books, music and such... |
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It wouldn't take long to reverse engineer that either. Redirect the IP, put up your own server...
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That's why DRM is fundamentally flawed as a digital protection mechanism. |
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What it's not good at is hiding content from an end-user. |
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The really good one is the HDCP software "monitor" interface I've seen recently which can capture and re-record "protected" content quite handily.
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