Re: A possible upside to DRM

From: Hal Finney (hal@finney.org)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 16:47:58 MDT

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    Lee Crocker observes:

    > This paper:
    > <http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~stuart/papers/eis03.pdf>
    > argues that technologies like Microsoft's Palladium may actually
    > encourage the creation of P2P networks that are more resistant to
    > external attack.

    I saw some discussion of this a few weeks ago, based on an article
    at EWeek. This link still seems to work:
    http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1053555,00.asp

       Record labels and movie studios are eagerly anticipating the potential
       file protection capabilities of Microsoft Corp.'s Next-Generation
       Secure Computing Base technology, but new research contends the
       architecture's security features may also help pirates and file
       swappers protect their ill-gotten gains.

    This paper was presented at a conference last week on Economics and
    Information Security. http://www.cpppe.umd.edu/rhsmith3/agenda.htm
    provides links to a number of other papers on related issues.

    Hal



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