[free-sklyarov] locking up books

[Seth Finkelstein]

Eric Eldred wrote:
> 
> It is hard for me to understand how companies
> such as Adobe expect to lock up books with DRMs.

	It doesn't have to be perfect. It just
has to protect the business model so it is
profitable. This is something techies 
DESPERATELY need to understand. What is at
stake is not an intellectual puzzle. That
is, saying "You can't make an unsolvable puzzle"
(== unbreakable crypto), is off-point.

	What is at stake is a business model
protected by both law and technology. Even
if neither is perfect, as long as the outcome
is profitable, that's good enough.

	Many people on this list argue in effect,
that because the technology used as been relatively
weak, the corporations are somehow in error for
also relying on law, and should just get better
technology.

	I have a feeling that they'd reply that in terms
of cost-benefit, they reached diminishing returns via
technology, but the law is doing wonderfully well
for them.

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Seth Finkelstein  Consulting Programmer  sethf at sethf.com  http://sethf.com
http://www10.nytimes.com/2001/07/19/technology/circuits/19HACK.html