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Intertrust Plans Universal DRM System
Rushmore and others wrote in with news that Intertrust, which has a large DRM patent portfolio, is planning a universal DRM scheme for consumer electronics.
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That's good, I was worried that this fancy-pants DRM thing wasn't going to take off.
Trolling is a art,
...just say "DRM" and "Open Standard" in the same sentence?
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
...than to get the patent lawyers involved.
The ______ Agenda
The benefit of a universal system is that it only needs to be cracked once.
Right now, we have to crack every new Joe DRM system on the block.
So, let's hurry this up and get it over with so we can put all of this behind us now.
They also have a patent litigation against Microsoft covered by Slashodot earlier
Ha! Anyone else misread this as "They also have a patent on litigation against Microsoft..."
Wouldn't surprise me....
I loves me some barratry.
Remember 3 years ago when it was said that we'd all have harddrives with built in DRM by now? Where are they?
They're putting them in the flying cars.
Wait... wrong thread. I meant they're being used for the new, improved rings of power.
R: That voice. Where have I heard that voice before? B: In about 365 other episodes. But I don't know who it is either.
NOTHING.
Bully for you. You won't be like all the other /. ranters who then add in a whispter, "after the Return of the King comes out on DVD." Or whatever movie/music you just gotta have.
Slashdot: Failed Car Analogies. Amateur Lawyering. Anecdote Battles.
Intertrust: We put the "Arr!" in Barratry.
That's "Mr. Soulless Automaton" to you, Bub.
That is until the building burned down. Now I'm at Pennitrode. Michael is trying to get me to join him at Innitech though.
Perhaps it's time to redefine DRM. I suggest Defective Recording Media. You can probably come up with something better. Digital rights management has about as much to do with my rights as the Patriot Act has to do with patriotism.
DRM here to stay? I think the whole of Asia will have something to say about that.
From the corporate point of view DRM is good precisely because many clever kids will find their way around it. This teaches a disrespect for law and ethics that creates a good crop for the mega-businesses to recruit their next generation of executives from. Success in tomorrow's economy requires both practice in cheating, and deftness in not getting caught. A wide array of breakable, but challenging laws pertaining to things young people care about assures our corporate citizens the cleverness and teeth necessary to preserve their freedom. No patriot should oppose this.
"with their freedom lost all virtue lose" - Milton
Unless you want to only listen to pre-DRM music, watch pre-DRM movies, and in general live in the past
With the direction most movies and music are going, this doesn't sound like such a bad idea...
fuck you.
When all you have is a hammer, every customer begins to look like a nail!
slashdot broke my sig
now there will be just one predominant set of DRM code that we have to figure out how to hack.
whew.
They are releasing a new DRM scheme? Ok...I am holding the shift key down...let me know when they are done!
I can't afford a sig!
That way you only need one method of bypassing it, rather than let each corporation make a diff version.