[vorbis] DRM

[Hugo van der Merwe]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 01:27:39PM +0200, Christophe BOUEV wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I was just wondering if there is a DRM (Digital Right Management) solution to use with ogg vorbis.
> Any information welcomed.

I liked FLAC's (imho humorous ;) approach to "DRM":

"""
   What FLAC is not:
<snip>
     * SDMI compliant, et cetera. There is no intention to support any
       methods of copy protection, which are, for all practical
       purposes, a complete waste of bits. (Another way to look at it is
       that since copy protection is futile, it really carries no
       information, so you might say FLAC already losslessly compresses
       all possible copy protection information down to zero bits!) Of
"""
--> Same goes for Ogg, currently performs "perfect compression" on DRM stuff.
"""
       course, we can't stop what some misguided person does with
       proprietary meta-data blocks, but then again, non-proprietary
       decoders will skip them anyway.
"""

Sorry, I don't have much more that I can contribute to the subject. ;)
(And I don't intend to argue for or against DRM, just tried to make an
"interesting" contribution.)

Hugo van der Merwe
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