2003-05-14 15:06:01

by Dean McEwan

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Subject: Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HARDWARE BASED.


----- Original Message -----
From: Tomas Szepe <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 17:12:46 +0200
To: Dean McEwan <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HARWARE BASED.

> > [[email protected]]
> >
> > E.G. a kernel could refuse to work after one year forcing its users to
> > upgrade their kernel, preventing exploits being left in place, and
> > creators of the prefab kernels in a sticky liable mess.
>
> Well, I reckon people who have an irresistible temptation to fish
> out their C64 to play Bubble Bobble[1] every time somebody comes
> to visit would have a pretty distinct opinion on this "feature."

Hmm.. I have no problem making it so that Abandonware software is autmatically
decrypted, however that means a master key system :) and thats a no no in
our GPL world. The key would just me used by everybody :) LOL.

>
> --
> Tomas Szepe <[email protected]>
>
> [1] http://www.bubandbob.com/

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