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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: Spies' cracking of encryption undermines... by na85 on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @02:24PM (#6842474)
I never said the copyright cabal was secretive but they absolutely want control over our computers' playback mechanisms.

There was a proposal, I think in the HDDVD spec maybe, wherein the dvd drive itself would be remotely disabled and prevented from playing future content based on the sole discretion of some nebulous 3rd party.

There's the Sony BMG rootkit thing that Mark Russinovich uncovered.

Yes, they absolutely want to cram your computer with DRM and you're a fool for thinking they don't.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: Spies' cracking of encryption undermines... by eridius on Tuesday December 03, 2013 @02:55PM (#6842713)
They want to control how their content is played back on your computer. That is not the same thing as wanting to arbitrarily stuff arbitrary computers full of arbitrary DRM. Yes, they've gone ridiculously overboard in the past, but DRM is not the goal in and of itself.
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