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There are good reasons I can imagine for iTunes distribution to work the way it does that are not necessarily inherent to the technical underpinnings of FairPlay or any other DRM. I'm not going to get into these reasons but I mention them because any assessment of FairPlay's security or ideas for other DRM schemes mustn't be confused by the current noise in the news about what is, I believe, a tangential implementation artifact.
I Am Not A Lawyer and I assume Heiko isn't either. It should be pointed out that only a lawyer could tell you for sure how much trouble using or building the tools Heiko alludes will get you into. For me, I prefer bars made of candy or that serve a fine old single malt and not be made of iron and function in lieu of doors.
Despite my personal distaste for DRM, as Kevin pointed out, the iTunes implementation mitigates much of the value destructive nature of DRM. IMO, it is so 'reasonable-minded' that it seems profoundly unnecessary and ultimately detrimental to productive outcome w.r.t. the onslaught of DRM on many fronts to attack, circumvent, bypass or whatever euphemism you choose, FairPlay. FairPlay is the only widely used DRM scheme I'm aware of that is not overtly user hostile. One would hope it could serve as a model for others and help set a minimum consumer expectation of freedom. If these activities force FairPlay to become more restrictive, *nobody* wins.
Despite my *personal* belief that DRM does ultimately destroy value for entertainment/educational media, it is a fact of life that rights and other issues may, in our current cultural climate, require QuickTime authors to implement DRM in order to ship a project at all. To that end:
There are at least two options I can think of now that may meet the needs of many of the subset of projects that require DRM.
- DRM-like things you can do for your own projects using LiveStage Pro and Wired actions. If you, create an account,log-in and search TotallyHip's 'StageDoor' (http://stagedoor.totallyhip.com/) support and community site for 'Copy Protecting your QuickTime movie' you can learn some methods and, likely, get inspiration for enhancements/modifications to enhance your movie's security.
- Way back when, during an early QuickTime Live! event, sealed[media] announced a DRM solution for QuickTime. http://www.sealedmedia.com They're still apparently a going concern with a recently updated website and they still visibly mention support for QuickTime in their DRM system.
The larger question of when/if Apple or other third parties will offer developers/content producers additional DRM architecture(s) of their own for QuickTime is, of course, something I can't even speculate about with any authority.
- Jon
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On Friday, March 25, 2005 3:02 AM, Heiko Recktenwald <email@hidden> wrote:
>Btw, you will not want such a "DRM", the encryption is done AFTER the
>download on the buyers machinere and there are allready programms, that
>dont do it, you buys the files without DRM, and allthough this may be a
>breach of contract etc, it is no circumvention in the sense of
>the DMCA.
>
>H.
>
>On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Jamie wrote:
>
>>
>> Is there any? I ask this question every few months in hopes that something
>> will spring up.
>>
>> What about FairPlay or whatever DRM iTunes uses for QuickTime movies?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Jamie
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