Palladium -- trivially weak in hw but "secure in software"?? (Re: palladium presentation - anyone going?)

[alan]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Nelson Minar wrote:

> I doubt it, though. Even a paper-thin shred of hardware protection is
> enough to prevent 99% of the people from circumventing DRM technology.
> Joe Sixpack isn't going to install a mod chip, and his local computer
> store can't do it for him for fear of prosecution for circumventing
> copyright protection. If the appliance enforces DRM when you buy it,
> that's good enough to guarantee revenue to the copyright holders. In
> the US, at least.

Until they find out that proper backups are in violation of copyright.

Or what happens when the company that controls the DRM mechanism goes 
under.  (Just ask DIVX users how much they enjpy the movies they bought 
from Circuit City.)



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