Open Source DRM Solutions?

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?"

Comments

It's an oxymoron

[Kjella]

If it's open source, you can change it thus disabling any protection it might offer unless it's some hardware-backed signing. The system isn't designed for it either, just removing all the ways you could dump the information anyway would be big job. Just get Vista if you want an end-to-end DRM stack. In short, you want to give someone the DRM'd file, the instrcutions on how the DRM works and still want them to be unable to decode it on their own, bypassing any DRM? Not going to happen.

Talk about a contradiction in terms.

[robbak]

You need to go find out what DRM is.

DRM is about Alice/Bob/Eve cryptography where Bob and Eve are the same person. All DRM tries to work by hiding the Implementation - Universally, it fails.
Open source is about revealing the implementation.

OpenDRM. Just say Huh?!