[Nottingham] BBC iPlayer petition

[Richard Smedley]

On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 13:41 +0100, Martin Garton wrote:
> How, in an open source implementation that can easily be changed, are
> you going to prevent the attacker simply changing the software to save
> the decrypted content rather than displaying it?

Exactly - just as you can't stop anyone taking the 
digital info from the monitor lead, never mind
cracking the DRM itself (cf DVD CSS; HD-DVD; etc.).
The point is that neither does more than act as an 
obstruction to honest people wishing to view their
paid-for content on other devices, while doing little
to stop unauthorised copying for (illegal) commercial
gain.

 - Richard


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