DRM Fatally Broken; Ad-Supported Media The Future
Aug 2nd, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Citizen Media, Corporate Podcasts, Digital Music, Digital Video Downloads, Internet TV, Video Podcasts, VlogsInformation Week’s Alexander Wolfe today offered his DRM Scorecard, summarizing it Hackers Batting 1000, Industry Zero.
“Every single significant attempt at consumer-music DRM has been cracked,” writes Wolfe. He supports this by noting that CSS (older DVD encryption), Fairplay (Apple’s encryption technology), AACS (new DVD encryption technology) and Windows Media DRM have all been cracked.
The sorry [...]