Well, not quite ... that is, according to Microsoft. It may have come as a surprise to them that their on researchers/security advisors produced a paper that claims "that all efforts to stop content swapping/theft - possibly even including Palladium - are in the long term futile."
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File swap nets will win, DRM and lawyers lose, say MS researchers
By John Lettice
Posted: 21/11/2002 at 15:24 GMT
A group of Microsoft researchers, including Paul 'Mr Secure PC' England, has delivered a paper which concludes that all efforts to stop content swapping/theft - possibly even including Palladium - are in the long term futile. This message, particularly the bit that dealt with the economics of DRM-enabled versus 'clean' content, must have gone down a storm with the audience.
Which, since you ask, was the Association for Computing Machinery DRM conference.
The paper, which is currently available here, is particularly striking in that it argues its way persuasively through the history, present and future of file sharing, the success or otherwise of 'attacks' (academicspeak for 'lawyers') on it, and concludes that file sharing will triumph.
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Edit> rest of the article at ... what Shani says
