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Re: the futility of DRM (Re: DMCA Crypto Software)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth David Schoen)
Sun Apr 20 22:56:40 2003
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Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 13:35:44 -0700
From: Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org>
To: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>
Cc: Ian Clelland <ian@veryfresh.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Adam Back writes:
> Also digital content encrypted out to the monitor, video card,
> speakers encrypted to that output device with keys negotiated with the
> content provider is also stupid. It places a silly burden on
> hardware, and won't stop copying. High quality output devices,
> together with high quality personal capture devices, plus the
> existance of digital content inside the output devices mean that
> content will be captured digitally and re-encoded, or simply undergo a
> high quality D->A->D path.
By the way, there are entertainment companies currently trying to prevent
the latter (previously called the "analog hole", now called the
"analog reconversion problem").
http://analog.blogs.eff.org/
http://www.cptwg.org/Assets/Presentations/ARDG/ARDG%20page.htm
http://judiciary.senate.gov/special/content_protection.pdf
--
Seth David Schoen <schoen@loyalty.org> | Very frankly, I am opposed to people
http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/ | being programmed by others.
http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/ | -- Fred Rogers (1928-2003),
| 464 U.S. 417, 445 (1984)
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