Racing Against Reversers

Racing Against Reversers
Federico Biancuzzi, 2008-06-05

Each time a new digital rights management (DRM) system is released, hackers are not far behind in cracking it. Reverse engineers have taken down the security protecting content encoded for Windows Media, iTunes, DVDs, and HD-DVDs.

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'In software protection, obscurity is everything' 2008-06-06
Jack Da Rippa

Yup, and precisely the reason why it can't ever succeed. This principle means everything else is just bumfluff.

Damn these CAPCHA's I'm in danger of failing a turing test! :(...

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Too bad it isn't about protecting content. 2008-06-09
TripleII

If you can show me one, ONE single piece of content for sale today anywhere in the world that can't be downloaded (if the person doing is OK with stealing content, I don't), I'd support DRM. Let me know about that piece of content. It's all about selling multiple copies of the same content to crea...

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