[Gllug] BBC on Microsoft DRM in new Outlook

[Richard Jones]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:27:39PM +0100, Richard Cohen wrote:
> Unless of course you use something like xpdf or pdf2html and have a quick
> look at the code.  The 'do-not-copy' and 'do-not'print' bits are just that -
> a bit set in the header of the file to tell the software not to allow
> copying or printing.

I understand that they're going to get serious by requiring decryption
online against a server. It's the only way to do it if you think about
it, and it has the handy advantage of locking customers even further
into an all-Microsoft future. (After all, it'll be a while before OO
will be able to talk to this server, and possibly never given even a
narrow reading of the DMCA).

Rich.

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