Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw...
by kelnos on Saturday July 08, 2017 @01:20AM
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> You can't simultaneously give us the content and not give us the content.
You actually mostly can, today, and "mostly" is good enough for the content producers.
If you have a DRM pipeline that has software and hardware that validates that it hasn't been tampered with (which is absolutely possible with today's technology), then the best an "attacker" can do is point a camera at the display device (and live with the reduced quality that brings), at least not without spending a ton of money on expensive hardware to defeat this.
And as another poster pointed out, DRM isn't really about protecting content from piracy, it's more about content producers having leverage over the people who make content-consumption technology. And it's working quite well for them for that purpose.
You actually mostly can, today, and "mostly" is good enough for the content producers.
If you have a DRM pipeline that has software and hardware that validates that it hasn't been tampered with (which is absolutely possible with today's technology), then the best an "attacker" can do is point a camera at the display device (and live with the reduced quality that brings), at least not without spending a ton of money on expensive hardware to defeat this.
And as another poster pointed out, DRM isn't really about protecting content from piracy, it's more about content producers having leverage over the people who make content-consumption technology. And it's working quite well for them for that purpose.