Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!]

Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-30T18:34:36Z

Larry McVoy wrote:

.> If you were a powerful
.> corporation, you might lobby Congress for more laws to protect your
.> works, you might start a "Trusted Computing" initiative to make sure
.> that the data was all encrypted so that only your programs could access
.> that data, etc.

So you are saying that the whole TCPA/Palladium thing is a sham,
designed so that only one company's products can be used to access
DRM-managed media? That's what I thought from day one...

What's stopping an open-source reimplementation? Or keeping Sony and
partners from creating a "DRM Linux" for their embedded OS?

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Chuck