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I know of no major DRM implementation that has not been quickly cracked - have you actually looked?

I know of no major DRM implementation that has not been quickly cracked - have you actually looked?

Posted Jun 17, 2009 7:05 UTC (Wed) by khim (guest, #9252)
In reply to: Over the top by liljencrantz
Parent article: Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

I know of no major DRM implementation that has not been quickly cracked, and I strongly believe that the reason for this is that the concept of DRM is technically flawed.

Have you actually tried to find such an implementation or are you living in your own phantasy world? The very first DRM implementation designed with help of cryptoanalysts - Cell - was successfully used for working DRM protestion of PS3 titles. The solution is on the market for 2.5 years, there are ove 20 millions players and 100 millions disks, yet DRM is holding? Will it work forever? Probably not - but then it has no need to: 20-30 years from now disks will deteriorate and the fact that DRM will be broken will have no practical significance...


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