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Open Source DRM Solutions?

Posted by kdawson on from the using-the-force-for-good dept.

Feint writes "I'm working on an business platform for inter-company collaboration based on an open source software stack. As part of that platform I would like to integrate some sort of digital rights management for the documents in the system. The vast majority of articles about DRM are focused how good or evil it is to apply DRM to digital music or video. I haven't seen many articles address open source solutions for protecting business data like CAD / MS Office / PDF / etc. documents, which is a real need in business today. Can the Slashdot readership suggest some open source DRM offerings other than the Sun DReaM initiative, which hasn't had a release since Jan. 2007?"

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  1. Open Source DRM? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No.

  2. Unclear On The Concept of "Open?" by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey, Guys! I want some help too!

    Do we have open-source Tasers? I'm also after open-source software to rig voting machines.

    I look in freshmeat and SourceForge - but they mostly seem to be oriented to freeing people, not locking 'em up.

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    "Flyin' in just a sweet place,
    Never been known to fail..."
    1. Re:Unclear On The Concept of "Open?" by Hognoxious · · Score: 3, Funny

      Too bad for you I've *patented* the idea of open sourcing tasers a long time ago.
      Don't sue me, bro!
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      Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  3. Re:Isn't that an oxymoron? by explosivejared · · Score: 4, Funny

    Use encryption if you want safety. But you still can't prevent the people who have legitimate access from doing whatever they want to the documents.

    Unless, and I think this is what he is after, you hire a group of armed commandos/Stallman look-a-likes (to keep it open source) to detail every end user of your media. With a gun to the head... making decisions about media becomes much more serious business.

    Open Source Stallman Commando: Don't even think about putting that in your shared folder! If this ends up on bittorrent, it's a 7.62mm round right to the groin!!!
    User: Oh my god... please don't kill me... (gets hit with the butt of the commando's rifle)
    Commando: One more word and I swear I pull the trigger!

    I'm not sure, but that may be the most workable DRM solution anyone has ever come up with.

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    I got a catholic block.
  4. Isn't that accountability? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Use encryption if you want safety. But you still can't prevent the people who have legitimate access from doing whatever they want to the documents."

    Like install a logic bomb.

  5. Re:Talk about a contradiction in terms. by KeyboardMonkey · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tell him he's DReaMing.

  6. Re:It's an oxymoron by s4m7 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, in DRM, Bob and Eve are the same person. DRM is not only socially undesirable, it's sexually perverse.

    hey now, keep your Judeo-Christian mores to yourself. Some /. folk like the idea of Bob and Eve being the same person.

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    This comment is fully compliant with RFC 527.
  7. Too busy by VampireByte · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why would anyone want to defer from working on their open source poison that causes slow-and-painful death for cute puppies?

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    Run and catch, run and catch, the lamb is caught in the blackberry patch.

    1. Re:Too busy by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 3, Funny

      What? The tazers or the voting machines?

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  8. Ob. Pulp Fiction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Jules: Open Source, Motherfucker! Do you use it?

  9. Re:Open source Scientology's OTIII,in its entirety by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

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    Last time that was posted, there was a DMCA complaint. Careful.