Two acronyms with totally different meanings but alongside each other, the start to make sense…
What do I mean, well DRM or Digital Rights Management, is a form of technology used by owners of digital content to control access to their media. DOA, means Dead On Arrival, used in the medical proffesion to refer to a patient who was found dead on the arrival at the hospital.
So what I imply is that DRM is DOA…
The owners of digital content believe that the use of DRM, is the number one defense against pirating media, but I think that it is only a major irritation and should be stopped, and new measures should be found. Look at DVD for an example, the DVD Forum decided to use CSS(content scrambling system) to prevent the copying of DVD’s, well along came Jon Lech Johansen, and DeCSS which broke the CSS on DVD’s.
The latest is that HD-DVD and blu-ray protections was also hacked with the keys of almost all the titles hacked! WinDVD 8 could have it’s key revoked because, it was the most likely source of the “key leak”…
The industries continued efforts only make “hackers”, coders and mathematicians more intrigued and stimulated to “crack”, break or discover the inner workings of such systems.
So please stop this irritation, we want to play content on our portable players and our home equipment. Not that I condone piracy or premote the pirate trade, I just don’t want to look at 5 minutes of Copy right warnings and be able to have freedom of movement in terms of were I take my media and were I wish to play and enjoy it!
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