On the efficacy of online proctoring using Proctorio (2021) [pdf]

Re:On the efficacy of online proctoring using Proctorio (202... by tshaddox on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @10:20PM (#32745654)

Content protection isn’t about preventing any single failure. The actual purpose of most video and audio DRM gets missed by a lot of people. The purpose is for content owners to exert control over device manufacturers and content distribution services. It’s completely irrelevant if anyone can easily go to a torrent site and download your movie. You still get to use the legal system to force device manufacturers and distribution services to do whatever you want them to do in order to be able to play your content.

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Re:On the efficacy of online proctoring using Proctorio (202... by gjsman-1000 on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @10:23PM (#32745669)

Not quite. If that were true, Blu-ray would have been quite happy with AACS. It had it all: key revocation, device-specific keys, blacklists, remote updates, it was plenty, and it even worked on the defunct HD DVD.

But they heaped on BD+ VMs, Cinavia watermarking, BD-ROM Mark, basically threw everything they had at the problem and hoped that something would stick. Movie studios actually say that Blu-ray supporting more DRM methods was actually a major reason they chose Blu-ray over HD DVD (which didn't support BD+, which supposedly was DRM designed to last a decade).

And again, if that perspective were true, the movie studios wouldn't have done the whole dance again with HDCP 2.2, BD+2, and AACSv2 when 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray came out (only for all of them to get broken again not long after release despite being completely-fresh implementations). You already needed the older versions, right? So, I would argue, it's actually a mixture of both.

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Re:On the efficacy of online proctoring using Proctorio (202... by MichaelCollins on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @11:00PM (#32745893)

Does audio DRM really exist? CDs were sold without any DRM and you can buy DRM free songs from the likes of itunes and amazon. Itunes used to have DRM but dropped it years ago; afaik songs bought from amazon never had DRM.

It's funny, songs are much easier to share than movies, the files are a hundredth the size, yet the movie industry thinks DRM is very important while the music industry survives just fine without it.

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Re:On the efficacy of online proctoring using Proctorio (202... by elcomet on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @11:36PM (#32746075)

The "selling songs" music industry is basically dead, most people stream or use YouTube nowadays. Maybe that's why they don't bother with DRM? It would make them even less attractive compared to streaming

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Re:On the efficacy of online proctoring using Proctorio (202... by MichaelCollins on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @11:57PM (#32746158)

Maybe. But iTunes started phasing out DRM in 2007 and had 80% of their songs DRM-free by 2009. I think that's a few years before streaming became big. And Amazon was selling DRM-free mp3s from the big four labels in 2008.

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