Open-Source DRM Ready To Take On Big Guns 520
Barence writes "An open-source digital rights management (DRM) scheme says it's ready to supplant Apple and Microsoft as the world's leading copy protection solution. Marlin, which is backed by companies such as Sony and Samsung, has just announced a new partner program that aims to drive the DRM system into more consumer devices. 'It works in a way that doesn't hold consumers hostage,' Talal Shamoon told PC Pro. 'It allows you to protect and share content in the home, in a way that people own the content, not the devices.' When asked about the biggest problem of DRM — that customers hate it — he argued that 'the biggest problem with DRM is people have implemented it badly. Make DRM invisible and people will use it.'"
Re:How can it be both effective and invisible? (Score:5, Funny)
It's different because it's Open Source!
Re:How can it be both effective and invisible? (Score:5, Funny)
It's the shiniest turd of all!
Awww Man (Score:5, Funny)
Open Source DRM would be cool (Score:4, Funny)
Just think what you'd need to do to bypass it:
Original Source:
bool isLicenceValid()
{
(Implementation goes here)
}
"Hacked" Source:
bool isLicenceValid()
{
return true;
}
Job done :)
Re:Invisible! (Score:5, Funny)
Any code made by a person can be broken by a person. We should invest less in cheap control schemes and more into robotic overlords.
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Re:Invisible! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Open Source DRM would be cool (Score:2, Funny)
That's okay, since they've already planned to bundle a piece of "software" that prevents you from using a text editor, called OpenSony.
Re:How can it be both effective and invisible? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How can it be both effective and invisible? (Score:5, Funny)
I guess it makes them feel safer, like a child hiding under the covers to be protected from the monsters.
Hey don't mock it. It works!
My bedroom has been monster free for thirty years.
Re:Impossible (Score:2, Funny)
Re:How can it be both effective and invisible? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:How can it be both effective and invisible? (Score:3, Funny)
I guess it makes them feel safer, like a child hiding under the covers to be protected from the monsters.
wait, so you're saying that the blanket won't protect me? what about a towel instead?
Re:Full Digital Kit... (Score:3, Funny)
I forgot...
My pc is digital. Wasn't there some talks of integrating something called Palladium (drm...) in all PC hardware ? And Vista (and possibly -lol- Windows7) integrates DRM by default.
again, ad nauseam...
Re:How can it be both effective and invisible? (Score:3, Funny)
Effective against the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal. [wikipedia.org] Against other threats, not so much..