I love the idea of being able to be part of a group of players that can help guide the way. For me, that is something that I am ready for once my application has been approved.
In the current situation, the response to the DRM application has been very negative. The company that runs drm services, Sony, doesn’t want to help anyone who is looking to break their DRM. If you’d asked me three years ago who I would have rated as a potential DRM partner to be, I would have said Sony. But, with Sony not wanting to be involved, I don’t see how this will get approved.
To be fair, Sony has been involved in the DRM field for over a decade. They know the risks associated with cracking DRM that are in our code, and have been working with publishers to get their code cracked in the past. But their recent action is not an endorsement. It is merely a refusal to support the idea that breaking DRM is something that needs to be handled by the companies that make the DRM, not the users.
Sony would have to ask for a “no” vote from users because in my conversations with them, they have indicated that they are going to go back to having their DRM code crack in a few months. This means that Sony has said that they have no intention of supporting users cracking DRM. So the only way they can get their DRM code cracked is if users vote themselves a “no.” And that’s not how DRM works. DRM is a legal system, not a technical issue.
I can’t help but suspect that if Sony or Microsoft doesn’t get their DRM code cracked, then users will start to think that DRM is a problem. So it is up to them to convince users not to crack DRM and to get them to vote yes.
So I guess you can say that Sony and Microsoft are supporting the DRM by refusing to crack it in the first place. That is a good start. But the DRM code itself isn’t a problem, the problem is how it is protected. DRM is a legal system that can be broken if you do it right. How Sony and Microsoft have managed to crack DRM is really quite impressive.
Sony and Microsoft are still cracking DRM for a reason. DRM is the only legal system that can be broken. DRM is actually not as hard to crack as it seems. It is only the technicalities that make it harder. So I guess the best thing to do is to get people to vote yes to DRM and not to crack it.
Yeah, DRM is already broken. It is only the technicalities that make it harder.
The only thing that’s not broken is the ability of a user to enter and go to a page from a screen that looks like a computer screen. The trick is to have a screen with multiple icons that can be viewed from different locations in different screens.
