Thread: Windows Playready DRM?
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2009-10-11 , 21:58
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Originally Posted by tso View Post
sounds like the trusted platform module (note that trust in this case is coming from the media companies and others that want to trust YOUR computer can not do something THEY dont like) that supposedly is the basis for the microsoft's next-generation secure computing base (NGSCB, also known as palladium).
Thanks for refreshing memory regarding Jon. There can be various persons involved. If you do reverse engineering is even recommended. The guy who writes the frontend is important for end-users, but the guy who cracks the DRM is also important, obviously, as well as the guy who documents the specification. Maybe can be thrown again at 'implementing proprietary standard for interoperability' like with DVD.

The 'trust' is assigned to whoever owns the master keys. That could be anyone. IOW you can use hardware-based authentications like Fritz chip to your advantage. End-users can, power-users can, corporations can, government can, and those who sell you trojan horse with tech product can as well.

We have never seen a corporation sued for stopping DRM service of paid content (Microsoft, Google, ...), use remote killswitch (Apple, Amazon), intentionally crippling hardware (Nintendo, Sony), or heck using DRM itself on remote devices...
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