4 Comments

1. Kibbee says:

   December 23, 2009 at 12:32 pm

   Already Broken
   I think we can all agree that the DRM was broken to begin with. DRM is defective by design. It only took us until now to figure out how to exploit the fact that it was broken.
2. Click170 says:

   December 23, 2009 at 2:54 pm

   I’d be more pointed in saying that trying to use DRM to restrict what your customers can do with your device is broken to begin with.

   http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2003042401126OSKNLL
   An example of DRM being used to protect the consumer and their computer.

   Trying to beat your customers over the head with DRM is just pathetically outdated though, and has been proven ineffective as each successive DRM is broken in turn.
3. crade says:

   December 23, 2009 at 3:26 pm

   Pathetically outdated?
   I foresee it comming back into style once they have a few solidying years of legal DRM protection under their belt! Whatever makes your shareholders short-term profits!
4. David Collier-Brown says:

   December 23, 2009 at 7:15 pm

   Fourth (or fifth) time DRM has failed.
   It failed on the Apple ][, it failed on CP/M, it failed on MS-DOS and subsequently on Windows. However, the idea of
   DRM is sufficiently attractive that con artists can simply
   find another sucker and sell it to them.

   The idea that the possessor of the keys can’t figure
   out how to open the lock is just a weaker variant of
   security through obscurity…

   –dave