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Open Source DRM

Posted by timothy on from the not-necessarily-an-afj dept.

Clyde writes "The different worlds of DRM and Open Source have come together under OGG-S, a project that just recently went to beta with their Open Source DRM toolkit. The project license in GPL and uses OpenSSL for its encryption engine. It will be interesting to see if this project helps to spread the acceptance of Ogg Vorbis."

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  1. Who will really trust open sourced DRM? by DuSTman31 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    One of the main reasons corporates seem ready to trust DRM is that the software that can decrypt the DRMd media is relatively immutable..

    If one were to release a new single using an open sourced DRM technology, there is simply no reason to believe that the software is "acting in good faith" according to the general idea of DRM.. One could easily adapt such an open-source DRM player so that instead of playing the file, it does something else with the decrypted data. Such as saving it to an un-encrypted version off the ogg file.

    Such a file could then easily be put on your favourite peer-to-peer network.. And once one or two people have it, that's it. That one un-encrypted instance can get anywhere and everywhere..