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Re:Two men wrote the original Adobe Flash in 1993 - where ar... by ryanpetrich on Monday July 16, 2012 @08:31PM (#4253476)
Open source and DRM are fundamentally incompatible—if neutering the DRM is a mere recompile away, what good is it to the sorts of organizations that require DRM?
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Re:Two men wrote the original Adobe Flash in 1993 - where ar... by citricsquid on Monday July 16, 2012 @08:36PM (#4253492)
My mistake, I should have said closed source.
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Re:Two men wrote the original Adobe Flash in 1993 - where ar... by patrickaljord on Monday July 16, 2012 @08:59PM (#4253565)
It's actually coming. If you go to about:flags in chrome, there's a flag called "Enable experimental Encrypted Media Extensions on the video elements.".

* https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-med...

* https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2012-April/020...

* http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/23/microsoft_google_net...

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Re:Two men wrote the original Adobe Flash in 1993 - where ar... by cpeterso on Monday July 16, 2012 @08:59PM (#4253562)
DRM'd media is encrypted and cannot be "neutered" if you don't have the decryption key. [Well-designed] DRM relies on secret keys, not secret source code.
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Re:Two men wrote the original Adobe Flash in 1993 - where ar... by sp332 on Monday July 16, 2012 @09:23PM (#4253643)
Here's the problem: either you have the decryption keys and can get to the content, or you don't and can't. If you can watch a movie on your computer, you already have everything you need to pirate the movie.
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Re:Two men wrote the original Adobe Flash in 1993 - where ar... by cookiecaper on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @05:57AM (#4254995)
Which, of course, is true for any cryptography, regardless of the openness of its implementation. It may be harder to keep the keys obscured in open code, but then the keys usually don't stay secret that long anyway.
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Re:Two men wrote the original Adobe Flash in 1993 - where ar... by rabidsnail on Monday July 16, 2012 @09:53PM (#4253709)
XOR is the best DRM. Since all DRM is breakable since you need the decryption key to play the content, the purpose should be to trigger the copy-protection-protection stuff in the DMCA, and XOR is the simplest way to do that.
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