[Mac_crypto] Apple and digital rights management

[R. A. Hettinga]

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Status: RO
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 20:31:08 -0400
To: "TidBITS Talk" <tidbits-talk@tidbits.com>
From: "JD Lasica" <jd@well.com>
Subject: Apple and digital rights management
Sender: <tidbits-talk@tidbits.com>

I'm one of the panelists at the O'Reilly Mac OS X conference this coming
Tuesday. Our panel's topic is Apple's Digital Hub: A Digital Rights
Management Operating System?

<http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2002/view/e_sess/3369>
<http://db.tidbits.com/getbits.acgi?tbart=06901>

DRM, or digital rights management, is built into Apple digital hub
products like iDVD, iMovie, iPhoto, iTunes, Final Cut Pro, etc.

For example, Apple decided not to enable screen captures so that you
can't grab still frames of  a DVD movie -- even *your own* DVD movie
shot with your own camcorder. (Perhaps they mistakenly thought they were
required to do so under the DVD software licensing terms set down by the
DVD Copy Control Association and the Content Scramble System.

Questions:

- What has been your experience with the DRM (digital rights management)
built into Apple's digital hub products? Are the restrictions
reasonable, or not? How do they compare to the restrictions you've seen
on your PC buddies' machines?

- Has anyone tried to play a DeCSS (decrypted) DVD on a Mac? Will it
play? Can you copy it?

Many thanks.


[Because of Tonya's birthday tomorrow and leaving very early Monday
morning to fly to the conference, I will likely have trouble getting
much posted to TidBITS Talk. So please be sure to send your replies
both to JD and to the list. -Adam]


JD Lasica

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