Unsurprisingly, Cryptographers aren’t behind DRM because of the nature of the content being legitimately available and ripe for misuse.

Speaking on the RSA conference panel Hollywood’s Last Chance - Getting it Right on Digital Piracy, Carter Laren, security architect at Cryptographic Research, noted that cryptography is “good at some problems, such as transmitting data so it can’t be eavesdropped or even authentication, but it can’t solve the content protection problem. If people have legitimate access to content, then you can’t stop them misusing it.

Who wants to wager that Hollywood and the RIAA still won’t get it? DRM is broken in the sense that customers do not like being jailed; they want freedom for the music and movies that they purchase. Some are saying that it’s just a matter of time before some teenage hacker cracks the current DRM schemes and then the cat and mouse game will begin anew. Solutions?

Did this post make you go hmm?

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