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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by chii on Saturday July 08, 2017 @02:52AM (#14724453)
but what part of the pipeline is responsible for the verification of the 'unmodified' trait?

If it's a part that's open-sourced (hardware or software), then won't it simply be _modified_ to allow it to pass and allow extraction of decrypted content?

If it's _not_ open-source, then you don't have a fully open-source DRM scheme.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by ngneer on Saturday July 08, 2017 @11:39AM (#14725758)
open source does not imply modifiable
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee approves Web DRM, but W3C members have tw... by vurpo on Sunday July 09, 2017 @11:01AM (#14730015)
From the Open Source Definition:

> 3. Derived Works

> The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.

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