Re: Oppose DRM ! Re: CfC: to publish Encrypted Media Extensions specification as a First Public Working Draft (FPWD)

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On Feb 12, 2013, at 5:55 AM, "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@iki.fi> wrote:

> (Moving from -admin to -media.)
> 
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote:
>> There is also this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openipmp/ ?
> 
> It seems that this is an implementation of OMA DRM. Upon quick
> inspection, it seems to me that OMA DRM depends on a client-side
> secret (private key for a public key) that the user can't read or
> replace and on the DRM-related software on the client device not being
> user-modifiable. Have I understood correctly?

I'm not familiar with how the key provisioning works, but yes, in general DRM relies on there being a non-user-modifiable* component on the client side (this should be obvious based on the goals of DRM).

...Mark

* of course I mean 'difficult to modify for some formal definition of difficult'.
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