vasudeva
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5/25/2006 at 12:03 |
Just saw a commercial for Vongo yesterday, a service that lets you download movies for a netflix-like monthly subscription.
I've checked out what I can short of signing up for a trial. They obviously use DRM. They force you to watch the movie on the machine you downloaded it to (dealbreaker) using their movie player app (dealbreaker). The movie expires at a certain pre-set point; I guess they license each movie for a set time (often months) and when their license expires, so does your download.
I don't know much about DRM, and this has made me curious. Do they put some sort of non-vongo-player-breaking wrapper around the media file that requires play-time sign-off from an official license approval source? It's the only way I can imagine disallowing me from finding the media file on my disk and copying to whereever I want and playing it with a non-cooperating player.
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metatron
Fighting The Good Fight ™  SSHOLEPosts: 490 Registered: 4/12/2002 Offline
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5/25/2006 at 13:14 |
What little I do know about DRM is that it can and will be updated to fix any flaws the people find, especially if big money is on the line.
That said, I did some googling and found this:
http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20060115/2851/
Check out the comments on that blog. There are ways to stop the files from being DRM'd.
There is also a competing service out there that I'm sure you're aware of. It is called USENET, and costs about the same.
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Xihilisk
Tender vittles  Posts: 44 Registered: 3/16/2006 Offline
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5/25/2006 at 17:46 |
Or you could pay absolutely fuckall and get them off Torrents or Warez-bb.com
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vasudeva
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5/25/2006 at 17:57 |
Holy shit, in my rush to pay for movies I forgot all the ways I could get them for free and forgot to ask you if you had any cool ideas.
I already have free alternatives at hand.
i want to know about DRM.
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IMBOLCPunxsutawneyPhil
SENATOR BABYHEAD  Posts: 244 Registered: 3/17/2005 Offline
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5/26/2006 at 02:26 |
Drm is evil.
Currenty there are several implementations that restrict media access under the guise of "digital" "rights management".
The digital part is just a ruse, it's nothing but marcom spin. The rights management part is the filthy leagalease that abrogates your rights to your purchases in the holy name of the god Capital.
Media playing devices have a few things going for them--the Consumer Electronics people want to give user's the ability to control their equipment. Ever since the days of Audio cassettes and VCRs there have been voices in both camps trying to win the right of "fair use" and "copy protection". There is and will be something called the ANALOG HOLE--currently you can output any video/audio stream through an open connection and have another "device" record from it.
Strike 1: Macrovision.
This technology is embedded at the chip level on some/most/all consumer video analog outputs rendering them "scrambled" when going to analog.
Strike 2: Propritary file formats.
Not only do they contain tracking GUIDs to nail you if you sell/lend/lose/have it stolen--these formats allow the strictest level of control. Itunes and other [asf, wmv, real!] have the ability to be restricted..
Strike 3: Trusted Platform Module
which makes all of those work arounds meaningless. There will be no signed driver allowed that does not comply with the output requirements of the rights-holders! That closes the Analog hole.
How old is it? Well TPM has been on the market and in the retail channel for over 3 years and is part of Intel's standard lineup. It's what LONGHORN will use.
By the way edumacate yourself: EFF
Digital Privacy Tangent:
By the way, you should shred your logs after you pull trafic data from them. Because they become supeonable evidence for secret National Security Letters that can be never revealed to you and the ISP must abide to...
Big brother is here, he's always been dumb and greedy, but now he's got more tools.
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IMBOLCPunxsutawneyPhil
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5/26/2006 at 03:46 |
oh and...
http://defectivebydesign.org/
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