Thread: Windows Playready DRM?
View Single Post
benny1967's Avatar
benny1967 is offline benny1967
2009-10-11 , 14:34
Posts: 3,790 | Thanked: 5,718 times | Joined on Mar 2006 @ Vienna, Austria
#34
Originally Posted by pelago View Post
The following is entirely guess work: I imagine to switch between the modes will require a reflash. Maybe there will be a dual-boot option. I would expect all your content (including address book) in one mode to not be accessible in the other.
Can anyone who attended the platform security (...) stream today comment on this?

This would be the worst nightmare come true... If the the change between digitally restricted and free mode requires a complete reflash and/or results in loss of data, DRM-free Harmattan will probably remain theory.

I'd hoped that you could boot into a restricted system (meaning OS restored to unaltered defaults, some applications won't be allowed to run and maybe even some files will not be accessible) or into a free system (hacked kernel OK, but certain files from restricted version unaccessible), with whatever isn't relevant to DRM (like my contacts or images I took) remains unaltered and shared between the 2 variants.
I'm spoiled, I know, but I would expect a Maemo device to let me switch back and forth on the go.

(OTOH: What is it that users as well as developers can't do in restricted mode? What would you want to do that would require DRM-free mode? I need more information before I can go into full DRM-rant-mode here...)