Digital Rights Management - An idea

Digital Rights Management - An idea

[Dean McEwan]

    I had an idea for DRM, what about a kernel that forces everything downloaded to have a 
valid signature, and doesn't let the file/program be accessed otherwise?

    We could discuss ideas now, move on to code examples next, and then draw up a whitepaper,

    All those who are interested mail me.

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Dean.
DM TECH.
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Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea

[Paul Rolland]

Hello,

>     I had an idea for DRM, what about a kernel that forces 
> everything downloaded to have a 
> valid signature, and doesn't let the file/program be accessed 
> otherwise?
 
Waoh....

If I want to install a new soft, I'm gonna have to find someone
having the .tgz file signed so that I can get it ????

Is that what U mean ?

Regards,
Paul

Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2003-05-14 at 09:30, Dean McEwan wrote:
>     I had an idea for DRM, what about a kernel that forces everything downloaded to have a 
> valid signature, and doesn't let the file/program be accessed otherwise?

You can set this up with both rsbac and selinux

Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea

[Shawn]

How exactly would you do this specifically for "downloaded" files except
by snooping into every ftp/http, much less having to decrypt the
protocols like https or scp?

Anyway, assuming you meant "downloaded file == any file", that's simple,
and already being discussed, most likely by companies like TiVo, etc.

On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 03:30, Dean McEwan wrote:
>     I had an idea for DRM, what about a kernel that forces everything downloaded to have a 
> valid signature, and doesn't let the file/program be accessed otherwise?
> 
>     We could discuss ideas now, move on to code examples next, and then draw up a whitepaper,
> 
>     All those who are interested mail me.
> 
> ---
> Dean.
> DM TECH.

Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea

[Dean McEwan]

> How exactly would you do this specifically for "downloaded" files except
> by snooping into every ftp/http, much less having to decrypt the
> protocols like https or scp?

Files would be recompiled for DRM...

> Anyway, assuming you meant "downloaded file == any file", that's simple,
> and already being discussed, most likely by companies like TiVo, etc.
> 

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Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea

[Shawn]

LINUX == their business

On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 10:40, Dean McEwan wrote:
> > How exactly would you do this specifically for "downloaded" files except
> > by snooping into every ftp/http, much less having to decrypt the
> > protocols like https or scp?
> 
> Files would be recompiled for DRM...
> 
> > Anyway, assuming you meant "downloaded file == any file", that's simple,
> > and already being discussed, most likely by companies like TiVo, etc.
> > 
> 
> FOR LINUX?

Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea

[Paul Rolland]

> > How exactly would you do this specifically for "downloaded" files 
> > except by snooping into every ftp/http, much less having to decrypt 
> > the protocols like https or scp?
> 
> Files would be recompiled for DRM...
> 
Which would make it impossible to import even the simplest text data
file on such a machine ????

Paul

Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea

[Dean McEwan]

> Which would make it impossible to import even the simplest text data
> file on such a machine ????

You would be asked to pick a license for file, pick artistic, 
and anyone could use it, encryption would also compress file...

 
> Paul
> 

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