Re: What is the "open web" ?

Security is based on the weakest slabon of the chain. It is always the
final user and the point where content is played, but besides that, if a
DRM system is broken for a minimal population, is broken for everybody
since piracy copies will appear yes or yes, and that's the reason
second-line hifi systems will be always in higher demand that first ones,
because they are capable to play anything and in a lot of diferent formats.

As they told me several years ago, "information wants to be free"... only
that I though they were talking about just for software source code. Now I
see did't :-) For me, a DRM system will be effective only the day than, at
least from a technical point of view, it's impossible to copy or play
without authorization without taking measures that conflict with Human
Rights (and being honest I believe it's posible, only that really expensive
for majors to implement it, both at development, implementation, and loss
of revenues by piracy related beneficts as merchandising and similar).
El 06/06/2013 08:14, "Henri Sivonen" <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi> escribió:

> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:16 PM, piranna@gmail.com <piranna@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Well, I don't know of any DRM system that hasn't been broken totally
> > or partially until this moment... :-) Also, some of the billionare DRM
> > systems has ben broken in just some hours, is that enough proof that
> > they are useless? :-D
>
> As long as law-abiding technology providers worry that the broken DRM
> system still constitutes an “effective technical protection measure”
> legally, their hands are tied in terms of what features they can ship.
> In other words, broken DRM systems are still useful for controlling
> what features are available in mainstream on-brand mass-market
> consumer products.
>
> Consider HDCP. It has been reported that the keys for HDCP were
> leaked. It has been reported that it’s possible to buy an HDCP ripper.
> Still, you don’t see HDCP ripping functionality in consumer
> electronics sold on the high-street from the well-known brands that in
> the past made VCRs and recording audio cassette decks available.
>
> --
> Henri Sivonen
> hsivonen@hsivonen.fi
> http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
>
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