Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 17:13:08 +0100
From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Dean McEwan <dean_mcewan@linuxmail.org>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HAR*D*WARE BASED.
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On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 03:22:46PM +0000, Dean McEwan wrote:
> > That way around doesnt actually work because I'll simply lie, fake the server or firewall you
> 
> Encrypted binary, in a XML wrapper that needs decryption key from owners site.
> Uses port 80...

... and is declared a firing offense.  BTW, the privacy issues (and related
information leak/blackmail potential) are mind-boggling - it's not just
"some guy bought $material", it's "this guy had accessed $material at
$list_of_times".

And that's besides being unable to use the FPOS in question on a laptop,
going tits-up whenever a backhoe finds your cable, doing the same when
vendor's boxen get screwed, yadda, yadda.

Crap idea.
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