Digital Rights Outlook: Squishy
Brad King,
Wired News,
Sept 12, 2002
The interesting tidbit in this article about digital rights management (DRM) in multimedia files is a proposal from Thomson called "super MP3". The idea is that instead of slapping all sorts of copy protection mechanisms into the file, you simply stamp the file with the identity of the computer that made it. I think there's a lot of merit to this approach. It won't prevent you from sharing a file with a friend (it won't prevent you from doing anything), but if you get into the business of copying massive quantities of files for fun and profit, the evidence will be all over the internet. The problem, of course, is that your PC's individual signature will be stamped on all the files you create, which has a significant potential for violations of personal security and privacy.
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