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CRF Reveals Draft of New DRM Technology
scubacuda writes "PC Advisor and others report that the CRF (Content Reference Forum), a new, cross-industry standards organisation that boasts Universal Music Group, Microsoft, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) and VeriSign among its members, has unveiled a new specification for a DRM technology.
A draft of CRF Baseline Profile 1.0 is available for public review and comment." According to a report on CNET News, the "the [CRF-created] file would set up a process that automatically delivers files in the right format and potentially triggers an automatic payment system that could be changed moment to moment by the content distributor."
Really make one of the meanings of "member" appropriate.
Wow, people are going to download executable code from kazaa and execute it. It ain't hard to guess what the follow-up news stories are going to be like. (Dammit, why haven't I bought stock in the anti-virus companies yet?!)
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Is that painting on the top of their website copyrighted?
I wonder what key we'll have to hold down to disable this new brainstorm.
Xenon, where's my money? -Borno
Blah. you mean more like 'automatic theft system'( once your machine is cracked ), or 'automatic consumer screw system', or 'automatic removal system' ( for those documents of 'restricted information' )...
If we ever get to that point, i for one wont be using a PC device of any kind...
---- Booth was a patriot ----
...file would set up a process that automatically ... triggers an automatic payment system that could be changed moment to moment by the content distributor.
Hey, I'll sell you a music file for only 1 cent.
On second thought, make that $100
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
Damn! I am getting me into the content business. Oh wait, I already am. Go CRF!
Cheers
-b
If I wanted a sig I would have filled in that stupid box.
Last time I checked, a file that tries to automatically charge you for opening it was a...
virus?
Ok, let me also say this. The whole thought process around the word automatically is really starting to scare the hell out me. We live in a society where folk have a hard time keeping track of written checks. How the hell do we expect them to keep track of all the automatic deductions being taken from them?
Oh wait, we don't. Just another way to enslave the masses I guess.
No thanks. I will stick files that might sound like crap, but I don't get charged for until I buy the cd (let the flames begin).
why do people keep reinventing the wheel and then say they're not trying to reinvent the wheel?
is it just me or does this "potentially triggers an automatic payment system that could be changed moment to moment by the content distributor" sound a bit dangerous and easily abusable by the 'content distributor'?
Is it just me, or does this require the participation of ALL digital content providers to work? For example, how will the downloaded file get a working file from iTunes if Apple doesn't want any part of it?
If I'm right, this seems dead before it starts, since the only real shot it has (IMHO) is being able to provide all songs, where some online sales places can't.
Am I wrong?
If you think this couldn't happen, consider that more Americans use p2p filesharing applications than voted for George Bush.
Change the Law, from my article Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads, discusses the background of copyright law in the United States, and suggests steps you can take to reform copyright law. Among the steps I discuss are to Speak Out, Vote, Write to Your Elected Representatives, Donate Money to Political Campaigns, Support Campaign Finance Reform, Join the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Practice Civil Disobedience
Thank you for your attention.
Request your free CD of my piano music.
moment to moment by the content distributor."
changed - or charged?
If it's not Consolidated Lint, it's just fuzz!
...that Microsoft wants to have a hand in the "standard DRM", you know, in light of their upcoming digital music service
why do people keep reinventing the wheel and then say they're not trying to reinvent the wheel?
:-)
So they can patent it under different discriptions
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
3 names that evoke freedom, innovation and the interest of the consummer. ah, we feel so much better now.
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Its really scary reading all this online. Large monopolies growing larger set to put the law back 200 hundred and more years.
A lot of people who don't read places like slashdot would be equally concerned if they knew what was going on. They need to be educated, its why democracy works, and why it fails when it doesn't occur.
It's called "bait n' switch, internet style"
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
"potentially triggers an automatic payment system that could be changed moment to moment by the content distributor" So basically, a file could cost 10 cents one minute, and 20 the next? What if you happened to download the file as it was being repriced, and you end up paying more than you expected?
Suddenly I am less happy. #1. M$ is part and parcel of it. #2. I don't like DRM Glancing at a document on the site, it would appear that it is a lawyer tool. Observe from their document: The primary goal for developing CEL is to meet requirements for building operational systems for content reference as given in [15], and to provide an extensible architectural framework for specifying contracts in other potential applications (outside of those for content reference) The primary function of a contract in CEL is to serve the following purposes: Evidence: communicate information conveyed within a contract that can be easily and unambiguously understood. Execution: facilitate permissive, obligatory or prohibitory performance within a contract in appropriate context, integrated with the contracting parties' business processes. This includes determination of whether or not one is allowed to exercise some right, or is required to fulfill some obligation or obey some prohibition. Evaluation: check permissive, obligatory or prohibitory performance by contracting parties. This appears to be another tool to control what I do. So I dislike it.
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|f(x)dx = F(b) - F(a)
"the [CRF-created] file would set up a process that automatically delivers files in the right format and potentially triggers an automatic payment system that could be changed moment to moment by the content distributor."
WOW! They're FINALLY giving us a LEGAL option for all of our content! Let's all give up our P2P stuff now since this is what we've ALL BEEN WAITING FOR! I can *hardly wait* to start PAYING for all this stuff that I used to get for free!
Oh gee I can't wait to see what kind of quality products these great protectors of individual rights come out with next. It sure is great to see such companies as Microsoft & Macrovision working together, but it sure does make you wonder where the RIAA and the Taliban were during these meetings? Their invitations must have gotten lost in the mail.
I know it's 2003, but why does it feel like 1984?
They use regular email for the system. And no need for "intelligent files" - just plain text or html will do.
Can the money they make and/or "save" on this stuff ever possibly justify the expenses that must be going into research/development and other costs (including pissed off consumers) for this stuff?
It's just an XML file that says where you can download the content, what software/hardware you need to view it, and how much it costs.
And just what's wrong with the dumb P2P files we have now?
Folks I hate to break it to ya but this type of stuff is the beginning of the end for privacy in the U.S. and abroad. Any lingering "wall" of privacy afforded to citizens trying to maintain personal discretion and private matters..well private is being torn down bit by bit. First it's the Patriot Act with it's slick naming scheme police state features and now it's the computer industry complying with it's handlers to figure out a way to make your data their data (remember that possession of 'property' is 9/10th's of the law...if any of us actually "owned" anything anymore anyway) What is this mess leading too? World Police Government....Sorry to spills the beans.
why would i download this, and not a drm free mp3 file? this doesnt sound like i get any benefit from it, because i know exactly where i can find mp3s (p2p) or aac(itunes). if i really wanted a drm'ed file, but i wanted it to be available in the drm flavor of my choosing, id want a service that would search iTMS, rhapsody, buymusic, walmart music, etc. and give me the file with the best sound, lowest price, and least restrictive license.
Fun for the whole family, have little billy click it twice for twice the fun!
Seriously, I was eating in "Dennies" (rellay, my fault, I know) and the eight of us each had the all-you-can-eat breakfast bar. When the bill arrived we had been charged for ten. When we said, "hey, there are eight of us, but you charged us for ten" the servers response was, "oh, so do you want to go back and eat some more?"
If you don't understand what is so wrong with the server in this example, then "automatically" and "changed at any time" are happy fun words for you and yours.
Someone please save us all from the popular culture that would make people think anything like this CRF could be given a "popular and positive" spin...
Innocent people shouldn't be forced to pay for inferior software development.
--"Code Complete" Microsoft Press
As far as I can imagine, "automatic payment" won't survive in a court. Unless you authorize payment, it's theft - setting up the account isn't authorization enough. The second they charge you, you can bring up a suit saying that you didn't download that song, your 7-year-old did, who isn't old enough to participate in the contract, etc.. I don't see how they expect to prove you payed if the transfer is completely automatic (no digital signiture, no entry of credit card info at time of purchase, no "Click Here to Order," etc.).
Imagine a virus that downloads tens of thousands of songs to your computer. Then imagine the automatic money transfer. Then imagine the lawsuit you'll have if they won't give back the money.
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If i can see it i can copy it ergo your entire specification (that you spent millions in business lunches on) is flawed. Not only that but the whole idea of DRM is the most idiotic and undemocratic imaginable. You (the greedy corporations) have helped move our society backwards by miles and have helped pass laws that will take years to unravel and fix. Your goal will make open source software impossible _and_ make open source hardware impossible. There is no way in hell you can tell me that you have the right to decide what people can do in their own homes, what hardware they can build, what software they can write and what things they can talk about which is basically what your going to do - intended or not.
If i want to write a program (that does not violate remote computers) then thats my right. If i want to build hardware or fab chips that are not 'leathal weapons' then thats also my right, and finally if i want to talk about what ive done, that is absolutely 100% my right and you can go and stick your rights up your wrong hole.
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Why do we need an executable that sucks money out of me? I want more.
I just want something that sucks my credit card number, PIN, SSN, mother's maiden name, and the biometrics for my colon if I so as much as hover on a hyperlink. That's what I want. I'm patenting it right now before any of you other bastards claim prior art.
I want to be charged for breathing, too, but I haven't figured that out yet.
This space for rent.
And you aren't eligible to participate in this unless your company has more than $1M in assets or similarly restrictive criteria>
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"the [CRF-created] file would set up a process that automatically delivers files in the right format and potentially triggers an automatic payment system that could be changed moment to moment by the content distributor."
Oh yeah, that sounds like a great idea.
Remember, these are the people you keep reading about that leave their servers open and have lists of credit cards stolen from them. Regularly.
Just imagine DRM and auto billing mixed into that. This will be a nightmare of epic proportions. You heard it here first.
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rediculous.
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Now you owe us... fitty cent
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Of course it's gonna run arbitrary code. :p
Only in a Slashdot fantasy can a Slackware install turn into several hours of sex . . . . .
There is currently a lack of interoperability between digital content technologies that makes it challenging for consumers to easily get the content they want, in the format, platform and other preferences they choose.
"While the internet and its protcols e.g www/http, filesharing etc are well suited to almost eveyrone in the world, we the suits find it challenging to make more money from less work."
Additionally, there is currently no technology framework in place that allows all market participants to ensure that the business agreements they make are respected.
"We have come to the conclusion that the business model that has been in use since the dawn of mankind (you give me this i give you that) does not work. We want to sell you a book, but we dont trust you to burn it after 24 hours so you can return and buy another one."
Today, there does not exist a technical and business framework to achieve interoperability across multiple technology platforms and enable new business models. The Content Reference Forum plans to change that.
"We had an old business model working before, but unfortunately there has been a change in technology and instead of moving on we want it our way."
The Content Reference Forum (CRF) is a recently formed standards group of leading technology and content-related companies established to develop a universal way to distribute digital content across various media and geographies.
"We have decided to join forces with our other corporate friends and make what is known in the business world as 'A big fucking unstoppable snow-ball monopoly bull-doser'"
The organization's goal is to create a dynamic marketplace where participants can promote, sell and legitimately share content; consumers can get the right content for their location, platform and preferences; and the underlying commercial agreements and rights surrounding the content are respected.
"We realised that eventualy everyone would figure out our plans so we sugar coated a potentially useless idea with the solution to a totally random problem: people get pissed off when they have to select their country and media format from a drop-down list."
CRF's work will benefit many different audiences including content and technology companies as well as services companies (e.g. cable, telecommunications, cellular) and related businesses (e.g. Internet portals/media companies, wireless companies, computer manufacturers, consumer electronics makers, entertainment companies).
"This will benefit us... and a few choice friends"
Consumers will also eventually benefit as it becomes easier for them to find and share the content they want in the way they want it.
"Consumers will eventually realise that if they do what we say we wont sue them. They will also be able to use our complicated, badly designed content search system and have the ability to select their country and media format from a drop-down list."
The technology is context sensitive. It's the antithesis to one-size-fits-all mass market distribution models. This makes it quite powerful and consumer friendly. The user's situation is relevant and respected including the rendering environment, location, existing relationship with content provider(s), and language preferences.
"We're going to write this little java app that lets you set the background colour of your online shop, and you can select your country from a drop-down list!"
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TH15 5UX0RZ?
Come on, you were all thinking it...
You can't take the sky from me...
Last night, I got a worried IM from a younger cousin of mine. His mom had "cleaned up" their computer, and he was having trouble sending some wmv/rm files to friends of his. Windows Media Player kept giving him and his friends errors along the line of "I'm sorry, but you don't have a license to play that file." Of course, I immediately knew what was going on, and explained to him that Windows was just trying to prevent him from making illegal copies of music. The problem is, the files he was trying to share were of his band, off of their own demo CD. At that point, I pointed him to xiph and enlightened him about ogg vorbis.
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DRM = digital radio mondiale - digital AM broadcasts from overseas that sound like FM with no noise.
http://www.drm.org/indexdeuz.htm
Oh, sh**! Wrong nerd hobby!
-Turnip Onion --- Neither micro nor $oft. Linux is a fine tool.
Just a thought, shouldn't drm be a userspace program?
Still smells the same....it stinks...
Copyright eventually expires, DRM doesn't.
Shakespeare didn't have copyright protection, neither did Bach, Mozart, Beethoven.
Interesting that no one since has been deemed better in those particular categories.
Infuriate left and right
I agree with all the previous posts saying how this is just another control mechanism. How in the hell can any human being accept a standard that automatically charges your bank account or credit card? I can see it now...you accidentally click on something and you end up buying it even thought you never agreed to or wanted said product.
So what is your response to this Mega-Corporation virtual theft? You call up their 1-800 number based in some 3rd world country and sit on hold for a day or so. When you finally get someone online they know nothing plus you can't understand a word they say.
God this sounds fucking great!
I can't wait! Where do I sign up?
Seriously these mega-corps can institute this standard or whatever they want to call it and sell it to the masses but we DO have a say so. I hope it goes the way of the 1st incarnation of DivX from Circuit City and burns out oh so quickly.
We as consumers can reject this outright and not buy into it. Money talks and bullshit walks. Money is the only thing these companies understand and that's the genesis of the entire drm/dmca argument although they would like to convince us it's just the ability to innovate.
With groups wanting to tie a drm to hardware and now this I really think the day is coming where we will actually want to stick with yesterday's hardware (today's) and forgo the next gen with all of the mega-media money protections built in.
I will stick with the hardware that I can control and not let it control me.
You aren't free to do anything, until you've lost everything.
What kind of fantasy world are they living in. The problem is that almost everything is encoded in well known formats that can be handled by most machines. The powers that be wish that content on P2P networks were in proprietary protected formats, but except for a bit of windows media crap, it isn't.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
All content you download will add it self to your ISP-bill, with an option to pay.
That is: Instead of the hassel to leagaly pay for digital content, how about making it a hassel not to do it.
Dont fight so har trying to destroy options. Better to invest that money in making the other option more attractive.
The problem is, the files he was trying to share were of his band
Actually, he might not have the right to distribute those files. He needs the songwriter's OK to distribute a recording of a song. And if he is the songwriter, he needs a professional musicologist's OK, or else what happened to George Harrison might happen to him.
But my personal feeling is that copyright should be reformed, not repealed.
For example, while I feel that copyright should be allowed for software, I don't think it should be permitted for binary-only releases unless full source code is submitted to the copyright office, so that upon the expiration of the copyright, it can be released to the public domain.
In the section of the article entitled Should Copyright Even Exist? I say:
Request your free CD of my piano music.
And it would be perfect.
I'm sure there'll be the place for talented individuals, but what I really fear will go missing are the large collaborative efforts. For example, take any professional cinema production. Between actors, props, make-up, costumes, cameramen, audiomen, directors, producers, editers, special effects and all the other people I'm forgetting right now, only a very few become famous. The stars and the star directors might get "enough" in itself through fame, status and whatever comes along with that.
The rest would have to be compensated in cash somehow. Quite a bit of cash, actually. And where will it come from, if everybody can copy it completely free? Not movie theaters. Not DVD sales. Not TV broadcasts. Nowhere, in fact. Unless you want some government or private institution finance it for some reason. Which would easily end up being politically "correct" movies or infomercials, no thanks.
I think the key would be a) limited times and b) escrow. e.g. software source code, original digital movies/audio recordings would be released by LoC or something like that when they expire from copyright. No infinite copyright using stuff like CSS, significant shortening of copyright.
Kjella
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Yeah, because, you know, that's just what consumers want.
FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec
Grand parent: Can copyrights really be that necessary to promote intellectual achievements when intellectual achievements have thrived without copyright?
You: In those times people were dismembered on stage, so therefore your argument is invalid.
Me: Ow, reading that post gave my logic muscle a hernia.
It's nothing but crumpled porno and Ayn Rand.
Woops, read that as contented distributor - which is probably more accurate...
Whats the over/under on how many minutes it will take for this to be cracked? I'll take the under.
Whats the over/under on how many years in prison that person is sentanced to? I'll take the over.
What are the odds that all computers made will require this built in (ala the v-chip)?
something about standards these days - they don't seem to ever live up to what they are really needed for. Take XSL for instance, a good start, but there are still some real problems. XML, hard to screw up. wep for example completely fails at any sort of security, we have to count on ipsec to provide secure connections. funny how though, there are no standards on authenticating a private tunnel based on a username and password. HELLO, radius is no longer acceptable. but as such for all the standards based goodness out there - there is no solution. How about an objct query language, no standard at all. XPATH is being used, but should it? probably not. How about the IETF, moving ever so quickly for IPV6? Or the w3c - moving to make HTML not such a damn cluster skroo, oh wait we'll need to wait until 2100 for that.
Standards - seem to be a real damn waste of time. Since they get you 90% there - but then let a brutha down on the most important parts.
And they plan to correct that by providing files to download that are specifically designed not to be readable by people who lack the appropriate software or hardware
These people don't actually use the English language. Or at best its a version of English that has been taken out the back, given a good thrashing and been convinced to do what its told or there'll be more of the same.
Sure it might be for a MS music store. But I think they are working on a way to do what opensource as always done, which allow for the downloading and installation of software on demand. That is why I switch to linux years ago. Tarballs, rpms, debs, and ebuilds all seem easier than messing with pirated or cracked software. I thinks thats why iTunes works too.
There are times I would have payed money for a MS product if I could have had it right then. Like when people sent files I can't read without the equation editer addon for office. I'll take latex downloads from CTAN any day over the hell of trying to get math to work in msword.
if you allow other people to have control over your finances.
When you give a company your bank account number and tell them, "Ok, just charge my account whenever your computer decides that I need to be charged" you are setting yourself up for trouble.
These people are theives and they will steal from you, penny by penny until they drain your life blood away.
When I walk in the store and take something from the shelf, plop it down at the check out and pay for it with GREEN CASH, ** --> I -- ** control my finances and there is no fear of being over charged or having bogus charges billed to me.
I live by cash alone. Everything I own is totally paid for. I pay only utility bills and I pay them with cash at the store. If I need something, I buy it at the store, with cash.
I don't get in over my head. I don't have ANY bank accounts and don't borrow or OWE anyone any money for any thing.
I can't be nickle and dimed to death on a credit card account because I don't have one. I don't have ANY bank accounts, at all. I don't have to worry about someone hijacking my identity because I don't have one.
Except without the M... (draw parallel to another great endeavor SDI)...
But seriously, when will these people learn. To invent something requires an inventor. No one is inventing DRM; rather it is a dark process of artificial ensemination via marketing and lawyers.
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In Windows Media Player 9, go to:
"Tools" menu -> select "Options.." -> choose the "Copy Music" tab.
Uncheck the "Copy protect music" option (which is enabled by default). This is all about the jukebox feature that's designed to rip your CDs to the hard drive. Being Microsoft it defaults to making copy-protected files.
MP3 encoding is not included by default because of the same patent problems that have been plaguing Linux distributions, but there are plug-ins that you can buy.
Of course OGG Vorbis is the best option, but Apple's free iTunes for Windows will make MP3 files as will CDEx.
Am I the only one who can see like 10,000 ways this can be used for fraud or to support deceptive business practices? You get an e-mail attachment you didn't request and guess what? You just paid for it.
I am amazed at the lengths this industry will go to just to make the PC into an expensive paperweight, a read-only device.
The actual content is DRMed, of course.
... thus can be cracked.
Difficulty of cracking process of a given DRM scheme is IMO negatively proportional (sorry, I can't remember whether this is right mathematical term in english) to number of experts responsible for creating the scheme. :)
hany
Am I the only one that doesn't keep any relevant personal information on a PC (Because I consider it to be an open book, despite all the measures I take to make it secure) ? How are they going to bill me automatically if there isn't any billng information to be found on my box ? This could only be done if your ISP is in on the conspiracy, in which case I would change ISP immediately...
Eventually, new hardware will require by law an 'approved' OS + software + monitoring tools..
So i figure at some point in the future ( many years away im sure ) us OSS people may be out of luck..
In that situation, Open hardware or old hardware may be banned too... id not put it past them.
Too bad todays hardware isnt made to last, eventually it will all fizzle out too, forcing 'upgrades'.
If that ban doesnt happen 100%, i am sure it will be a requirement to get online at the least " for national security ".
---- Booth was a patriot ----
REMEMBER THE DIVX!!!!
Punishments too light. Expect life jail sentences, extension of liability to family, friends, and unlimited fines, all to be determined by the copyright holders.
You owe the media companies the Skewes Number of dollars. No, 10^that. No, 10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^10^that. No, wait...
Ah, what the hell. They own all possible Universes. Get SETI going, we have fines to collect.
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That's what some people in the music industry think it is. What they imagine is a world where they don't need extensive distribution channels but still get the money.
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Just FYI, the correct term is "inversely proportional" - ie as one quantity increases, the other decreases.
It's official. Most of you are morons.
shit's fucked up!
...is customers. I suppose there will be some. Me, I figure if it's good enough to rent, it's good enough to own, so I'll continue to buy pieces of dead plastic.
It adds cost to the provider, and reduces value to the buyer (I'd pay more for non-DRM media than I'd pay for DRM). A lose-lose proposition either way.
It looks like what Microsoft, etc. are trying to do are to ensure that no matter where you get the media from, they get their cut. They no longer need to invest in distribution, just let the media market itself through the P2P network like a virus. And for every user that downloads, they get their fee automatically. Definitely makes P2P more legal and viable long-term as a legitimate business, but without the ability to negotiate and enter into a decision to pay knowingly, this would be a nightmare.
you can bring up a suit saying that you didn't download that song, your 7-year-old did, who isn't old enough to participate in the contract, etc..
Try the same suit with your long distance carrier sometime.
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
Both the RIAA, Microsoft and Verisign have a dominant role in their respective markets. This forum is about providing a infrastructure for digital content.
There is inherently nothing wrong with that. That is, as long as they define infrastructure that will be universally applicable. So if it only runs on an Microsoft platform it has failed. If it only protects data by companies associated with the RIAA it has failed. If the only security it allows for is the security as provided by Verisign it has failed.
When content, of a type protected by the mechanisms to be worked out by this committee, become available, the content is the copyright of the issuer of the data and as such it is entitled to the protection offered by the infrastructure. This means that music is secured at the time of publication within the infrastructure. This allows for people to create their own content and do with it as they like and, if at all it is secured, it is secured within the same infrastructure as is the commercial content as published by the organisations associated with the RIAA.
* Linus Torvalds has said before that the inclusion of DRM is not a problem as far as he is concerned.
* Music Midi and computers have a long history. It cannot be that the use of computers connencted with music or photo's or video will cease.
* There is nothing inherently wrong with DRM but it has to be open and it must secure my data as much as the data from a commercial entity.
* Given the pedegree of the people in this committee THEY have to prove their bona fides. Microsoft is a convicted monopolist and the RIAA wants the law to grant them the right to be a monopolist. They have one good thing going for them; Microsoft is one of the greatest marketing companies ever.
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Gerard
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CRF defines as "data packages that uniquely identify content and the context in which it will be used". Galuten said that might include information about the consumer's specific environment"
Trusted Computing securely reports to the media company that you are running on a compliant Trusted Computing system - your "enviornment". The files will not WORK unless you have an approved "enviornment" that will enforce for example a $1 billing process before playign the file. The whole CRF system is a standard format for the Certicificates generated by Trusted Computing.
That can throw these files onto an ordinary P2P system and they only work in an approved "enviornment" - on a Trusted Computing Compliant system that certifies that you cannot bypass any of the listed DRM rules. Sure, they could use the CRF system with files that work on non-Trusted Computing machines, but what would be the point? You'd be able to just tell your computer to ignore the listed DRM rules. The CRF system is is designed as part of a chain leading down to a TCPA chip on your motherboard. If you have no chip you can't do squat with the file.
Microsoft is a key player here, the intent is that the new files will work on their new Trusted Computing Operating system Palladium / NGSCB / NEXUS / Lnonghorn / or whatever they change the name to next. The new files may *may* work on a Trusted Computing complianant Mac or Linux, but that would be up to the company releasing the file in the first place. With Window's massive market share dominance media companies may not bother checking and approving the compliance of other OS's. The files might not work on a Mac or Linux even if you DO submit to Trusted Computing.
More for the same computerweekly story:
group members found their efforts on the Oasis Rights Language Technical Committee stymied by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), because of what Galuten characterised as Oasis' "difficult" governance rule.
When asked to comment on the CRF's plans, EFF staff attorney Jason Schultz said the CRF's specifications are the foundation for a digital rights management system, about which the EFF has "deep concerns".
The Baseline Profile Version 1.0 seems to envision a system where content owners put copyright content in a locked box, then decide who gets to take it out of that box and for what reasons, he added.
The restrictions on use stipulated by the CRF's Content References may deny access to individuals who wish to use media files for parody or political expression, an exercise of civil liberties guaranteed by the US Constitution, Schultz said.
Architectures such as those proposed by the CRF may do a good job of representing the rights of content owners, but could have a "chilling effect" on speech and artistic expression by consumers who use that content under "fair use" guidelines that are typically reviewed by a judge, he said.
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...renaming DRM-hardware PC's?
PC = Personal Computer
Since you won't be in control of your computer any more, there's some mileage in calling them CC's (Corporate Computer) instead. Bleh.
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Thank you very much.
hany
The "ransom model", as I understand it, would require an author to release a small number of chapters of a book, and then somehow demand money/donations from their readers collective for more chapters/the rest of the book.
Didn't Steven King experiment with this recently?
GrimRC