2012/12/06

Microdoft guy about DRM



Four Microsoft engineers with Peter Biddlom (pictured) at the helm have ten years ago a controversial study released quite The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution. It predicted that even the most sophisticated DRM system will not be able to withstand all attacks hacker community, and that as soon as you will be at least one free copy of the digital shackles, will no longer be possible to stop its illegal distribution over the network ("darknet"), type p2p, bittorrent, or good old sneakernet (transfer data with USB flash drives and external drives). But again, this will not stop the publishing industry, not to any other month again, which will then be turned into technological and legal war in which they will always strive to be one step ahead of the pirates on the high costs of end customers.



Most theorems are to date more than realized, no doubt about it. Almost all of the protected software or. content sooner or later (more "before") live to the point when someone breaks the truth about how it works, or. to major keys, which no longer can be replaced easily. This also applies to mobile platforms, which sooner or later jailbrakajo. Microsoft's findings were all the more important because it is just Biddle during the preparation of this article led to the Trusted Computing Group - trusted computing - ie. combination of hardware and software protections, which would impede the run unauthorized programs, as well as playback of unauthorized digital media (DVD, Blu-ray, digital download), of course, all the windows. Biddle was afraid that this solution is not only possible, but at the same time is extremely bad for consumers, and ultimately for the company.

But it was the issue of an article in great dilemma. Microsoft is in fact considered to Holywoodsko then rode to become the main technology for použivanje entertainment, of course with the help of their DRM's (hoped to Windows and Zune what was later succeeded by the Apple iPod and iTunes). Therefore, if a key member of their publishing, it's all fog, to know how these negotiations swim in the water. But because he wanted to tell his, went still ask bosses - who did not understand the content of not technical article, much less its implications (or which they may not be bothered). The article is then published and presented, due to extreme anger and publishers almost lost his job. What's more, Microsoft did not allow him not to defend himself, nor did he confirm or deny the contents of the article, and so let Biddle in an extremely precarious position (and with much destroyed his career). In the end, as we now know, Microsoft products have not become nevemkako important in the world of entertainment (the new surface are selling rip-off), the trusted computing teams remained only SecurBoot, and even then in a very rickety.

So prophetic words. Unfortunately, the large of them are not really taught. DRM is still relatively common - now even in the special edition of the Humble Indie Bundle :/ - every few months we have also given a new trial extremely restrictive legislation at the international level. Last acronym in this area are CETA and TPP, almost certainly will be new this year Kaka.

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