Re: No policy? Re: Is EME usable regardless of the software/hardware I use ?

> I don't quite understand your 'proposed AES mechanism' based on the emails
> you have sent

You asked for a possible Open Source CDM mechanism, and I showed
what's one of the best ones that current technology could offer.
Remember that I'm a technologist, and I'm happy to solve _real_
technology problems, not idiosincratic and arbitrary goberment or
bussiness model based ones...


> but you should remember that the important feature of any
> content protection system is not whether it is breakable or not (nothing is
> impossible, as you point out), but exactly how difficult it is to break and
> in what form the break can be propagated.
>
I agree, I only think that if a mechanism like this is breakable, it's
useless from my point of view.


> Some examples: if someone with considerable expertise can obtain unencrypted
> files and post these to a torrent site, that is one thing. If they can do it
> at a rate of 100s of movies per hour that's different from if they can only
> do it in real time.

It have been shown that the vast mayority of picary films are leaked
from IPs of the major studios. That's suspicious...


> If it's possible to create and distribute a custom build
> of a browser which enables saving of protected content as an unencrypted
> file that is another thing and if someone could create a website which
> anyone can visit with an off-the-shelf browser that allows them to proxy to
> a legitimate site and then save protected content as an unencrypted file
> that is again another thing.
>
Hehehe... do you know that I've been developing during the last year
just something farily similar to this thing that you propose (or at
least very related to it) and I've won the "Most Innovative and Open
Knowledge" project award on the national spanish VII Universitary Free
Software Championship just the last week? :-D Just a simple and
inocent single page webapp... :-P


> The robustness of a content protection system is not a binary thing, so
> there is a lot of space for solutions with different properties.
>
Sorry, but I don't think so: once it's broken, it's insecure, and
since being secure it's its own purpose in life, it's useless.


--
"Si quieres viajar alrededor del mundo y ser invitado a hablar en un
monton de sitios diferentes, simplemente escribe un sistema operativo
Unix."
– Linus Tordvals, creador del sistema operativo Linux

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