"Squishy" DRM?

lhouk281 writes "There's an article on Wired about squishy DRM. Apparently some companies are trying to find a happy medium in implementing DRM between the consumer and the RIAA. Good luck..."

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Re:Too late. The cat is out of the bag.

[rknop]

Mozart died nearly penniless, without even the money for a private grave. (He was buried in a mass grave, so we don't know exactly where to go to pay respects.) Yeah, that's a great incentive.

Myth.

http://europeanhistory.about.com/library/bldyk11 .htm

-Rob

Not True. Stop Spreading Microsoft Hype.

[FreeUser]

Except that the virus, by definition, cannot run on a DRM machine, so fat chance getting it propagated.

You are echoing Microsoft marketing hype which is simply untrue. Palladium will only allow "signed" or authorized software to run, which sounds good until you realize that many worms and viruses run as a subprocess of an authorized process. That is one of the reasons wbhy ActiveX was such a dismal failure at preventing malicious code from being executed.

Palladium will do nothing to stop viruses or worms from spreading or running on systems, as the worms and viruses will simply insinuate themselves into authorized code and run anyway. Microsoft's claim to the contrary is simply untrue and deceitful (what else is new?), designed to leverage their incompetently designed systems and their notorious reputation for being unable to design a secure system into a selling point for a new product designed to kill the commercial viability of free software, not viruses.

DRM isn't the same thing as Palladium, though the two are certainly akin to one another in some respects, and doesn't address authorization of software at all, merely of access to data, something that is also orthogonal to virus and worm prevention.