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DRM Take II — Digital Personal Property

Posted by timothy on from the shhh-you're-disturbing-my-metaphors dept.

Diabolus Advocatus writes "Ars Technica has an article on a new form of DRM being considered by the IEEE. It's called Digital Personal Property and although it removes some of the drawbacks of conventional DRM it introduces new drawbacks of its own. From the article: 'Digital personal property (DPP) is an attempt to make consumers treat digital media like physical objects. For instance, you might loan your car to a friend, a family member, or a neighbor. You might do so on many different occasions and for different lengths of time. But you are unlikely to leave the car out front of your house with the keys in it and a sign on it saying, "Take me!" If you did, you might never see the vehicle again. It's that ability to lose control over property that is central to the DPP system. DPP files are encrypted. They can be freely copied and distributed to anyone, but here's the trick: anyone who can view your content can also "steal" it irrevocably. The simple addition of a way to lose content instantly leads consumers to set up a "circle of trust" that can be as wide as they like but will not extend to total strangers on the Internet.'"

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  1. You down with DPP? by devotedlhasa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah you know me!

    1. Re:You down with DPP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah you know me!

      Forshame, whoever tagged the parent offtopic.

      Ahem. Someone give me a fruityloops beat.

      CTaco about to rocko
      Cowboy neal, gimme your spheel!

      DPP, how can I explain it
      I'll take you frame by frame it
      To have y'all sharin' shall we upp it?
      D is for digital, P is for personal
      The last P...well... that's not simple
      It's sorta like another way to call (a concept regarding imaginary property) as (actual property)
      It's eight little letters that are missin' here
      You share on occasion at the other (download) part
      As l33t h4x 'n it seems I gotta start to explainin'

      Bust it

      You ever had a torrent and grabbed it with a nice client
      You get the packages and the IP and you know your shits compliant
      You get home, wait an hour, peer's what you wanna know about
      Then you open it up and it's some fed who straight up tryin' restraint!

      It's not a front, F to the R to the O to the N to the T
      It's just the police at a seeder's house (Boy, that's what is scary)
      It's DPP, data other people's what you get it
      There's no room for rights management, there's just room to hit it

      How many brothers out there know just what I'm gettin' at
      Who thinks it's wrong 'cos I'm leechin' and rippin' at
      Well if you do, that's DPP and you're not down with it
      But if you don't, here's your l33t membership

      Chorus:
      You down with DPP (Yeah you know me) 3X
      Who's down with DPP (Every last matey)
      You down with DPP (Yeah you know me) 3X
      Who's down with DPP (All the mateys!)

      As for the lamers, DPP means something gifted
      The first two letters are the same but the last is something different
      It's the quickest, slickest, compres-- I call it the compressedest
      It's another eight letter word rhymin' with unruly and a-stoolie
      I won't get into that, I'll do it...ah...sorta properly
      I say the last P...hmmm...stands for pachouli

      Now hackers here comes a packet, blow ICMP back to me, now tell me exactly
      Have you ever known a hacker who have another torrent or FTP
      And you just had to stop and just 'cos it went so fast
      You portscanned it, it blacklisted you right away
      That it had some l33t porn but it wouldnt be yours anyway

      You couldn't be caught with it and honestly you didn't care
      'Cos in a room behind a door no one but ur server's there
      When you finish, you'll start seeding is what you tell yourself
      And then you know that seeding's whack, cut that shit to preserve your wealth!

      Chorus:
      You down with DPP (Yeah you know me) 3X
      Who's down with DPP (Every last matey)
      You down with DPP (Yeah you know me) 3X
      Who's down with DPP (All the mateys!)

      Download it down!

    2. Re:You down with DPP? by Bigjeff5 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Damnit! You people and your "If I take your car, now I have it and you don't" analogies have ruined it for everyone! Now copyright infringement really WILL be theft!

      At least for the week it takes someone to figure out how to duplicate the keys, anyway.

      --
      Security is mostly a superstition... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. - Helen Keller
  2. New Questions by CopaceticOpus · · Score: 5, Funny

    This new development in the copyright arena is going to raise several important questions. Do we refer to this as "Dippy" or as "Da peepee"? Do we change the acronym to "Digital Pretend Property" or "Digital Property Penalties"? Will this technology never really take off, or will it only die after a multi-billion dollar campaign and several dozen slashdot debates? Only time will tell.