Re: Sony, Rootkits and Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:56:22 +1300, Nick FitzGerald said:

> Of course, that is not how the DMCA is written.  The DRM developer/ 
> rights-holder/etc is not, under the DMCA, under any obligation to 
> implement "good" or "sound" or "proper" DRM.  They basically just have 
> to do _something_ they claim protects their rights.  It could be as 
> trivial as XOR'ing the digital data stream with a fixed byte/word/dword 
> and anyone who eye-balled the protected data and recognized the 
> "obvious" pattern of the plaintext data with an XOR overlay would open 
> themselves to prosecution (at least, if they ever uttered a description 
> of this "protection").

Adobe. Skylarov. ROT-13.

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