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Tuesday February 14, 2006

lessons from the sony CD DRM episode

Halderman and Felten case study and analysis of digital rights management technologies based on sony CD DRM mess is now released. [pdf] required reading.

The systems make no pretense of enforcing copyright law as written, but instead seek to enforce rules dictated by the label's and vendor's business models. These rules, and the technologies that try to enforce them, implicate other public policy concerns, such as privacy and security.

[2006.02.14-10:33 EST: this paper has not yet been slash-dotted.]

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