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Microsoft has been awarded a patent for a type of DRM that will work on P2P distributed file networks.
The DRM scheme is set to solve the problem of having centralised authentication servers, which if it goes down, means no more access to content that has been paid for.
However, DRM has grown hugely unpopular and the public just does not want more of it, regardless of how much better it is compared to what came before it.
This passage from The Inquirer article says it all:
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The DRM scheme is set to solve the problem of having centralised authentication servers, which if it goes down, means no more access to content that has been paid for.
However, DRM has grown hugely unpopular and the public just does not want more of it, regardless of how much better it is compared to what came before it.
This passage from The Inquirer article says it all:
Now DRM only really exists in the movie industry, which is fighting the same battle that the music industry did and losing it in exactly the same way.
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