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Microsoft Patents DRM'd Torrents

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'll-patent-torrenting-torrents dept.

Anonymous Crobar writes "Microsoft has received a patent for a 'digital rights management scheme for an on-demand distributed streaming system,' or using a P2P network to distribute commercial media content. The patent, #7,639,805, covers a method of individually encrypting each packet with a separate key and allowing users to decrypt differing levels of quality depending on the license that has been purchased."

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  1. Re:That's actually pretty clever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Certainly solves a good half of the people-steal-everything problem.

    What the fuck are you talking about? I'll just jump on the usual pirated torrent, thanks.

  2. Re:That's actually pretty clever by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did they remember to patent hacking the encryption within 30s of release? Otherwise the hackers will get away with it!

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  3. Embrace, extend, extinguish by HeckRuler · · Score: 5, Funny

    FINALLY Microsoft reaches out to embrace, extend, and extinguish DRM.