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Alan Turing snickering
Sep. 4th, 2007 05:55 pmCory Doctorow has just posted a quick explanation of why DRM can't work, for the laymen.
It included the fantasic line: "ever since Alan Turing and the lads at Bletchley Park broke the Nazi ciphers and spent the rest of the war reading Hitler's secret dispatches and snickering to themselves."
If you want a full on Geek-fest on why trying to implement a thorough Digital Rights Management system is a bad idea, listen to Cory reading "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection". Or, read it yourself. It's an incredibly detailed breakdown of all the costs (financial, chronological, and futile) of Vista's copy protection system. The punch line of which is it lasted 1 week in the wild. Before a geek got annoyed he couldn't play something he'd paid for.
It included the fantasic line: "ever since Alan Turing and the lads at Bletchley Park broke the Nazi ciphers and spent the rest of the war reading Hitler's secret dispatches and snickering to themselves."
If you want a full on Geek-fest on why trying to implement a thorough Digital Rights Management system is a bad idea, listen to Cory reading "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection". Or, read it yourself. It's an incredibly detailed breakdown of all the costs (financial, chronological, and futile) of Vista's copy protection system. The punch line of which is it lasted 1 week in the wild. Before a geek got annoyed he couldn't play something he'd paid for.
