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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."

2 of 326 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Independent and Unsanctioned? by Emmettfish · · Score: 4, Informative
    Is it safe to say that these people are in no way associated with the Ogg/Vorbis people? I can't see how this is a good thing. The whole point of Ogg formats is that they're open and free. Do we really want a version of Ogg/Vorbis that is saddled by use restrictions?

    I assure you that SideSpace is in no way, shape or form affiliated with the Xiph.Org Foundation, who make Ogg Vorbis and other royalty-free multimedia codecs.

    Emmett Plant
    CEO, Xiph.Org Foundation

  2. Re:another thinly veiled attempt to make money by sidespace · · Score: 5, Informative

    Emmett,
    I agree that 10% of our proceeds should go to Xiph.org; tonight I will update the web page so that 10% of a purchase will go to Xiph.org as well as the EFF. The reason this change was not done sooner was because at the time OGG-S started, Xiph was not a non-profit organization (charging for the fixed point decoder).
    Also, if you believe the name of OGG-S could cause any consumer confusion please feel free to email me at rsage@sidespace.com and I will work on changing our site accordingly. Since OGG-S has been mentioned on the Vorbis mailing lists in the past, I had assumed this name would not cause any confusion.

    Sincerely,

    Ryan @ SideSpace