The DRM Scorecard

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 1, 2007 @12:26PM from the guess-who's-ahead dept.

An anonymous reader writes "InfoWeek blogger Alex Wolfe put together a scorecard which makes the obvious but interesting point that, when you list every major DRM technology implemented to "protect" music and video, they've all been cracked. This includes Apple's FairPlay, Microsoft's Windows Media DRM, the old-style Content Scrambling System (CSS) used on early DVDs and the new AACS for high-definition DVDs. And of course there was the Sony Rootkit disaster of 2005. Can anyone think of a DRM technology which hasn't been cracked, and of course this begs the obvious question: Why doesn't the industry just give up and go DRM-free?"

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It's not about being uncrackable. by liftphreaker · 2007-08-01 13:29 · Score: 0, Redundant

Some seem to miss the point. It's not about creating unbreakable DRM which will serve RIAA/MPAA faultlessly till the sun goes nova. It's about throwing enough obstacles at the casual copier and as much as they can at the professional pirate to keep them at bay for the next few years, till the next great media format and DRM tech come along.