Re: DRM

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 13:09 +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:

> I do not see how you need DRM for privacy...

I did not say that you need DRM for privacy. I am not advocating DRM.

DRM is built on a set of mechanisms. Unfortunately, it appears to me
that the same mechanisms that are needed to support DRM are also needed
to support privacy. At the moment, I do not know of any set of
mechanisms that is sufficient to support privacy that does not *also*
enable the deployment of DRM.

None of this has anything to do with the legal or moral issues
surrounding DRM.

What we need to do is determine (a) whether my suspicion is correct, and
(b) whether we can find a distinguishing characteristic between privacy
and DRM that we can exploit at the technical design level. At the
moment, I don't see a way, but I haven't had time to think about it yet.

shap