Plan Would Use Software, Not Devices, to Fight Piracy

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Seems to me I have seen this before djf

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From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 09:41:37 +0200
To: "Dave E-mail Pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
Subject: Plan Would Use Software, Not Devices, to Fight Piracy

Plan Would Use Software, Not Devices, to Fight Piracy

By JOHN MARKOFF
The New York Times

A prominent computer security researcher has proposed a technical solution
aimed at forging a middle ground in the increasingly bitter battle by
Hollywood and Silicon Valley over the best way to protect digital content
from consumer piracy.

Cryptography Research has begun circulating its proposal, which it calls
Self-Protecting Digital Content, among entertainment companies. It plans to
make it available publicly this week, in an effort to break the impasse over
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which Congress passed in 1998 with
strong lobbying support from Hollywood and other creators of intellectual
property.

Cryptography Research's proposal would shift the location of copy-protection
code from the consumer products that play music and movies and run software
to the content files produced by entertainment companies and software
developers. The plan aims to help avoid the immense costs of building piracy
protection into personal computers, video game players, satellite receivers
and other devices produced by technology manufacturers. While it would not
eliminate the possibility of digital theft, its advocates said it would
drastically curb piracy while easing the burden on the technology industry.

They say the plan would also avoid invading the privacy of consumers who do
not engage in piracy and make it easier and less costly for content owners
to recover if a copy-protection system is broken.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/technology/15CRYP.html

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