DRM and Threat Analysis

miladus writes "A timely and concise intervention by Ed Felten on the topic of DRM and the models used (or not used) to represent the threats to defeat. In brief, 2 models, one based on the potential of large scale redistribution of copyrighted files implying defeat of DRM if one user succeeds in bringing file inquestion to P2P network; the other, refers to the majority of users who would casually copy files. The implications of the schematization are most interesting because they explain some the logic behind the often confused and confusing rhetoric of DRM advocates and the necessity for rational grounding for technologies."

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Re:Euphemisms

[Flower]

piracy - I am not on a ship in the carribean sea.

For grins once, I checked out a dictionary published in the 50s. One defination for piracy was copyright infringement.

I think that after 50+ years of common usage bitching that the term isn't accurate is pedantic. People here just don't like the connotation it carries. Get over it and find a better way to argue the point. Like calling the act "sharing" instead of usurping the copyright owner's distribution rights.