This is precisely the problem with DRM. It is NOT a security model. Or, rather, it's an antipattern to security. DRM is an encrypted message system where the attacker and the recipient are the same entity. The only way that works is if the recipient is somehow prevented from accessing the decryption key. That means security by obscurity is as fundamental to DRM as oxygen is to aerobic chemistry; as fundamental as differentiation is to calculus.
Studio execs, congress critters, lobbyists, etc., all think that this is a solvable problem. They the only reason is hasn't been solved is because enough effort hasn't been spent yet. They don't understand that it's logically incoherent nonsense. Physically impossible. A fallacy. A priori BUNK. Snake oil. A scam. A lie. Bullshit.
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This is precisely the problem with DRM. It is NOT a security model. Or, rather, it's an antipattern to security. DRM is an encrypted message system where the attacker and the recipient are the same entity. The only way that works is if the recipient is somehow prevented from accessing the decryption key. That means security by obscurity is as fundamental to DRM as oxygen is to aerobic chemistry; as fundamental as differentiation is to calculus. Studio execs, congress critters, lobbyists, etc., all think that this is a solvable problem. They the only reason is hasn't been solved is because enough effort hasn't been spent yet. They don't understand that it's logically incoherent nonsense. Physically impossible. A fallacy. A priori BUNK. Snake oil. A scam. A lie. Bullshit.