Open Source DRM

Posted Jan 27, 2006 12:32 UTC (Fri) by samj (guest, #7135)
In reply to: Open Source DRM by rknop
Parent article: Ugly legislation in the U.S.

Agreed, there does need to be a 'sealed' component - currently proprietary software is filling that void but in future we will have access to the same hardware tools that they do (eg Trusted Platform Modules aka Palladium). It should be possible to build a transparent, robust system that gives us flexibility while protecting the viability of creative industries (in which I'm not including what I like to call the 'legacy media industry'), ideally by protecting the files themselves rather than the path right through to the output devices.