Here's the DRM support I could get behind [LWN.net]

Here's the DRM support I could get behind

Posted Dec 13, 2005 4:32 UTC (Tue) by rknop (guest, #66)
In reply to: Here's the DRM support I could get behind by drag
Parent article: GStreamer to support DRM

A couple for isntances are: Protecting recordings of confidential conversations. Like if you'd want a lawyer to keep a recording of meetings with yourself for criminal proceedings and be able to send those recordings to a colleague to a guy half way around the world.

So encrypt it with gpg and send the thing. DRM isn't going to help you here... and a fully free-software solution will.

-Rob

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Here's the DRM support I could get behind

Posted Dec 13, 2005 4:42 UTC (Tue) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

good point. I fogot the drm stuff would probably be closed source.

gpg encryption is pretty much the same thing, just without the buzz-word-ness. (drm is essentially a buzzword, or so it seems to me)

I was thinking along that that line, except something that is designed as a standardized encrypted media format instead of more general encryption. Something you could stream with or something that you could play directly into a media player (hardware based or software based) without decrypting it and making multiple copies first.. and having a standardized way of dealing with keys and such.

but what your saying probably makes more sense.

Here's the DRM support I could get behind

Posted Dec 13, 2005 10:54 UTC (Tue) by job (guest, #670) [Link]

gpg encryption is pretty much the same thing, just without the buzz-word-ness

Not really. Encryption is about you hiding your data so unauthorized people can't view it.

DRM is about some people deciding what you are allowed to do with their data (and the abstract idea that they can give you some data while they retain ownership). This is typically something you do with laws. If there is encryption involved it's either just for show or something useless the lawyers require.