Thread: Nokia only manufacturer without 'kill switch'?
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-06-25 , 16:16
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Originally Posted by woody14619 View Post
You can do DRM with opensource, it just takes some thinking and planning on how to do it properly. The question is, will they take the proper route and do it right in an opensource way, or take the easy route of security through obscurity, which in the end is usually not as secure long term.
Well, no, you can't. What Sygic and Joikuspot did is nothing new in the grand scheme of copy control technologies, and not terribly robust. That said, I prefer and respect that means rather than demanding that I allow my property to treat me like the enemy.

As for actual device-level DRM, you can't do it with open source unless you do like Motorola and employ TrustZone to ensure that the system remains in a known state, otherwise you could simply strip out the access controls and roll on.

Originally Posted by ysss View Post
@wmarone:
Don't get me wrong. As a paying customer I'd love to do away with DRM. But knowing the commercial developer side, I also can sympathize with their concerns. That's why I phrased my last post that way.
Their concerns are largely the same as the media companies: they want artificial constraint of supply on something that necessarily has none. While I disagree with piracy myself, I would assert that it will happen no matter what unless we are completely and totally stripped of freedom, and that they should compensate appropriately instead of demanding I knuckle under.
 

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