[IP] Re: We didn't need all that DRM after all??

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Tony Lauck [tlauck@madriver.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:52 AM
To: David Farber
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:   We didn't need all that DRM after all??

I believe there is a big difference between proprietary formats and DRM.
In the U.S. it is not illegal to reverse engineer a proprietary format.
It is illegal to reverse engineer encryption used for DRM. (IANAL)

Tony Lauck
https://www.aglauck.com


 > From: Peter Wayner [pcw@flyzone.com]
 > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 3:36 PM
 > To: David Farber; bob37-2@bobf.frankston.com
 > Subject: Re: [IP] We didn't need all that DRM after all??
 >
 > I'm not sure I follow this. How are Hulu or YouTube not DRMed?
There's very little practical difference between a proprietary format
and some encryption that calls itself DRM.



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