On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:14:00 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> On 4/14/2011 10:07, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 09:30:54 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/14/2011 1:07, Invisible wrote:
>>>> It would be harder to crack if you invented some new storage format
>>>> and then made all devices capable of playing it respect the DRM.
>>>
>>> They did this with DVDs and Blu-Rays.
>>
>> And that didn't exactly work out well - both formats' DRM has been
>> broken (DVD for many years now).
> 
> That's precisely my point. :-) It doesn't work out a whole lot better if
> you have multiple sources for the DRM interpreters.

True.

The fundamental flaw with DRM, as you (I think said) elsewhere is that if 
one can consume the media, one has to decrypt it, and if one can decrypt 
it to consume it, one can decrypt it (maybe *eventually*) for other uses.

Jim

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