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2 What is DRM Digital Rights management Used to describe a number of techniques used to restrict the use of digital media

3 The law Digital Millennium Copyright act To implement the 1996 World Intellectual Property Organization treaties Illegal to –Circumvent anti-piracy measure –Manufacture, sell, or distribute code- cracking devices

4 Examples Content Scrambling System (CSS) –Used to encrypt DVDs –Jon Lech Johansen cracked it DeCSS – Lets DVDs play correctly on Linux –http://www.tinyted.net/eddie/css.htmlhttp://www.tinyted.net/eddie/css.html

5 Examples cont. Sony rootkit of 2005 –Automatically installed –Sent “stuff” back to sony –Easy to get around –Hard to remove –Hacker friendly

6 More examples All the music file format –Windows media format –iTunes –Real player Don’t all play all MP3 players

7 Other names The Free Software Foundation –Digital Restrictions Management –Moglen and Free Software Foundation founder, Richard Stallman, are co-authors of the GPL version 3 ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind –Content Restriction, Annulment and Protection or CRAP


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