Re: “Content protection” vs. “DRM” (was: Re: Letter on DRM in HTML from the Civil Society Internet Governance Caucus)

> I disagree. I think calling it "encrypted media", while technically
> correct, evokes incorrect associations about the threat model. People
> go astray when they try to draw analogues between "encrypted media"
> and the usual sort of encryption that doesn't treat the communicating
> parties as each other's adversaries but treats a third party as an
> adversary.

The communicating parties, in this case, are the server and the approved
player.  Any other third party - the user, or non-approved players - are
the adversaries.

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