Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Member since:
October 2007
October 2007
Blu_Bawla,
There are many ways that DRM schemes have been implemented, but usually involve some sort of decryption algorithm along with some sort of physical method to make copying diffucult. Obviously some have been more successful in their goal than others (try ripping an SACD!), but generally speaking most (if not all) of these tecniques have been circumvented by hackers. The trick is to make it difficult for the general public to get around DRM.
The hard part going forward is to allow managed copying while still allowing studios to apply DRM. We'll likely see downloads containing paired key encryptions (similar to secure sockets or HTTPS), where the host key must be somehow put upon the client devices that the user chooses to register (with a pay-per individual device in the works I betcha).
Although a hacker could get by this scheme by re-encrypting the file with a known host key for another specific registered device pool, it would be impossible to make a "one size fits all" unprotected copy that could be put up for bit-torrenting by the masses.
All this is just conjecture on my part, but studios love DRM and will implement it or simply avoid giving us managed copying ability all together.
There are many ways that DRM schemes have been implemented, but usually involve some sort of decryption algorithm along with some sort of physical method to make copying diffucult. Obviously some have been more successful in their goal than others (try ripping an SACD!), but generally speaking most (if not all) of these tecniques have been circumvented by hackers. The trick is to make it difficult for the general public to get around DRM.
The hard part going forward is to allow managed copying while still allowing studios to apply DRM. We'll likely see downloads containing paired key encryptions (similar to secure sockets or HTTPS), where the host key must be somehow put upon the client devices that the user chooses to register (with a pay-per individual device in the works I betcha).
Although a hacker could get by this scheme by re-encrypting the file with a known host key for another specific registered device pool, it would be impossible to make a "one size fits all" unprotected copy that could be put up for bit-torrenting by the masses.
All this is just conjecture on my part, but studios love DRM and will implement it or simply avoid giving us managed copying ability all together.
