Name: Anonymous 2017-12-01 8:24
Hopefully I don't get banned for spam. I thought this was an interesting article:
https://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2017/11/how-four-microsoft-engineers-proved-copy-protection-would-fail/
The article says it was published recently, but, in actuality, this article was recycled from a post in 2012. The article itself actually discusses a 2002 paper issued by Microsoft from the time the first began to "lock down the PC", in this case by means of the failed Trusted Windows Project.
Why repost a nearly half-decade-old article? Because it was completely right in its predictions about DRM and piracy. Basically, the crux of the argument is that DRM is inherently imperfect and, for as long as the best and brightest minds can crack DRM, there will always be cracked media circulating on the "darknet". Hollywood would react by attacking the most centralized parts of the darknet (e.g. the Pirate Bay), and the cracker community, in turn, would simply becoming more decentralized.
The whole point of DRM was never to be perfect. Hollywood's logic was basically making it inconvenient for the average person the subvert it. Somthing they don't point out is that we, the normal people, have to deal with the consequences of this. Maybe not in media, but let's go back to Trusted Windows. Well, that project didn't last, but we see the product of that effort: UEFI, secureboot, which effectively locks us out of installing a freer operating system onto a lot of modern hardware. We're suffering because Hollywood is basically trying to fight entropy. When will they learn? Because for as long as they don't, the only one who loses is us. We know for a fact that piracy doesn't affect the retail of digital media.
https://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2017/11/how-four-microsoft-engineers-proved-copy-protection-would-fail/
The article says it was published recently, but, in actuality, this article was recycled from a post in 2012. The article itself actually discusses a 2002 paper issued by Microsoft from the time the first began to "lock down the PC", in this case by means of the failed Trusted Windows Project.
Why repost a nearly half-decade-old article? Because it was completely right in its predictions about DRM and piracy. Basically, the crux of the argument is that DRM is inherently imperfect and, for as long as the best and brightest minds can crack DRM, there will always be cracked media circulating on the "darknet". Hollywood would react by attacking the most centralized parts of the darknet (e.g. the Pirate Bay), and the cracker community, in turn, would simply becoming more decentralized.
The whole point of DRM was never to be perfect. Hollywood's logic was basically making it inconvenient for the average person the subvert it. Somthing they don't point out is that we, the normal people, have to deal with the consequences of this. Maybe not in media, but let's go back to Trusted Windows. Well, that project didn't last, but we see the product of that effort: UEFI, secureboot, which effectively locks us out of installing a freer operating system onto a lot of modern hardware. We're suffering because Hollywood is basically trying to fight entropy. When will they learn? Because for as long as they don't, the only one who loses is us. We know for a fact that piracy doesn't affect the retail of digital media.