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Father of MPEG Replies To Jobs On DRM

Posted by kdawson on from the way-forward dept.

marco_marcelli writes with a link to the founder and chairman of MPEG, Leonardo Chiariglione, replying to Steve Jobs on DRM and TPM. After laying the groundwork by distinguishing DRM from digital rights protection, Chiariglione suggests we look to GSM as a model of how a fully open and standardized DRM stack enabled rapid worldwide adoption. He gently reminds Jobs (and us) that there exists a reference implementation of such a DRM stack — Chillout — that would be suitable for use in the music business.

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  1. Re:As a wireless/microwave engineer by iluvcapra · · Score: 5, Insightful

    GSM is very secure, but is a communications protocol, not a DRM protocol. GSM allows Andrew and Betty to talk, without Charlie hearing. As has been stated often before, in DRM, Betty and Charlie are the same person.

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  2. Re:Completely Moot by Mateo_LeFou · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Our view is it's our job to provide the technology and the content providers can tell us what kind of restrictions and policies they want to apply to that."

    That's an interesting opinion to have. If party X is in charge of dictating the restrictions and policies in your product, isn't party X your real customer?

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