Open source DRM
Posted: April 3rd, 2006 | 4 Comments »Great initiative from Sun Microsystems: DReaM, an Open-source initiative backed by Larry Lessig, father of Creative Commons.
The goal is to promulgate an open-source architecture for digital rights management that would cut across devices, regardless of the manufacturer, and assign rights to individuals rather than gadgets.[...] If DReaM works, consumers will be able to access their purchased songs through a number of providers, and using a wide variety of devices.
France, now Sun Microsystems, maybe there are reasons to believe…
There are plenty of reasons to believe. The commons, and ip rights as a whole are gaining steam worldwide, save for a few dark corners. There is a lot left to fight for, but it’s not as bleak as it looked a few years ago.
I just did an interview with Lawrence Lessig about his role, you can find the interview on my Creative Commons music site
http://indieish.com/2006/04/06/interview-lawrence-lessig/
There are plenty of reasons to believe. The commons, and ip rights as a whole are gaining steam worldwide, save for a few dark corners. There is a lot left to fight for, but it’s not as bleak as it looked a few years ago.
I just did an interview with Lawrence Lessig about his role, you can find the interview on my Creative Commons music site
http://indieish.com/2006/04/06/interview-lawrence-lessig/
A less enthusiastic follow-up from Cory Doctorow:
How Sun’s open DRM dooms them and all they touch
David Berlind has written about Sun’s “Open DReaM” crippleware project, a DRM that pretends to be “open source” and an “open platform” in a cynical bid to curry favor with copyfighters and studios. The gimmick is that Sun’s technology has to be run as signed code on trusted computing hardware, which means that while you can see the code, you can’t change it, improve it, or build on it.
A less enthusiastic follow-up from Cory Doctorow:
How Sun’s open DRM dooms them and all they touch
David Berlind has written about Sun’s “Open DReaM” crippleware project, a DRM that pretends to be “open source” and an “open platform” in a cynical bid to curry favor with copyfighters and studios. The gimmick is that Sun’s technology has to be run as signed code on trusted computing hardware, which means that while you can see the code, you can’t change it, improve it, or build on it.