The Fallacy of DRM
Jan. 4th, 2008 08:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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comment on Slashdot gave me a new perspective on why it is that Digital
Rights Managment (DRM) doesn't work, and can't work:
DRM relies on encryption.
Encryption is designed to secure communication between Alice and Bob while
denying it to the evil Eve.
In DRM, Bob and Eve are one and the same person.
In other words, DRM seeks to give a person access to an item while denying
him/her access to that item. This is not a recipe for success.
comment on Slashdot gave me a new perspective on why it is that Digital
Rights Managment (DRM) doesn't work, and can't work:
DRM relies on encryption.
Encryption is designed to secure communication between Alice and Bob while
denying it to the evil Eve.
In DRM, Bob and Eve are one and the same person.
In other words, DRM seeks to give a person access to an item while denying
him/her access to that item. This is not a recipe for success.
