the futility of DRM (Re: DMCA Crypto Software)

[Seth David Schoen]

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 at 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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