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MS report: DRM can' t succeed in long run
File swap nets will win, DRM and lawyers lose, say MS researchers
"A group of Microsoft researchers, including Paul 'Mr Secure PC'
England, has delivered a paper which concludes that all efforts to stop content swapping/theft - possibly even including Palladium - are in the long term futile. This message, particularly the bit that dealt with the economics of DRM-enabled versus 'clean' content, must have gone down a storm with the audience."
To View the full article, go to: http://wwww.theregister.co.uk/content/4/28231.html
To View the Report, go to http://crypto.stanford.edu/DRM2002/darknet5.doc. Note: This requires Microsoft Word or Word Viewer.
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spikester
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Date: November 24, 2002 @ 2:59 AM
haha, even Microsuck sees it!
I wish the RIAA/MPAA would. |
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W-B
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Date: November 24, 2002 @ 3:27 AM
To quote Gomer Pyle: "Surprise, surprise, surprise!"
However, the multinational entertainment-media complex's, and their alphabet-soup lobbies', contempt of the public is so strong that I predict they will outright REFUSE to see what these Microsoft researchers have concluded.
And to quote another saying: "There are none more blind than those who will not see." |
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FordIndigo
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Date: November 24, 2002 @ 5:49 AM
Wow. I just have to say that after reading all of this DRM garbage I was really depressed about my hobby and possibly career choice. But this really makes things seem better. I was really ready to just dump computers and learn to fly.
On a side note, even though I use Winblows, me and all my friends thought that Microsloth was the epitome of all things evil. I find it funny that with this statement they seem to show that they have more brains in their right pinky finger than the entire collective employment of organizations such as RIAA and MPAA. They still might be evil, but atleast they have a little sense about some things |
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goldenpi
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Date: November 24, 2002 @ 12:57 PM
I doupt this paper was written at microsofts request. If it was it would have a different conclusion, something along the lines of "Every DRM system is completly usless and the pirates will run unless music is encrypted using out palladium technology, which is really secure because we dont tell anyone how it works". A few employies just wrote it in their spare time, and avoided most of the attention from The Execs Above for long enough to release it without a visit from the marketing department. |
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