Just whose rights does DRM manage and does it matter anymore?
Speculation is rife all over the ‘net that DRM (Digital Rights Management) is dying. Some would even claim that Steve Jobs killed it.
I don’t think so (on both counts), but then again I’ve been wrong before.
Posts Tagged ‘DRM’
DRM: Dead End or Inevitable Arms Race?
Vista DRM The ‘Longest Suicide Note in History’?
Windows Vista is crippled by design, according to security researcher Peter Gutmann.
Gutmann’s paper, A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection, has caused quite a bit of a stir since first The Inquirer and later Slashdot picked it up.
A choice quote, from the Executive Executive Summary(sic):
The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the
longest [...]