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An article in The Register is detailing a new technology that is being demonstrated at CeBit that requires the user to register with a digital signature certification authority. The technology blocks all attempts to copy the file until the owner is "willing to autograph the purchased content with his personal digital signature". At that point, the file can be transferred to a portable player or to "family and friends, adhering to the prevalent legislation and the rules of fair use".
It appears to be a little more lenient in allowing the users to share the files...but I still hate DRM. But I feel that this may be the lesser of many evils.
What do you think? Is this the DRM technology that should be used? The MP3 digital audio format has been extended to allow the inclusion of digital rights management technology.
The Fraunhofer Institute - the company behind the development of MP3 - will demonstrate the technology during a presentation at CeBit later this month.
Fraunhofer's Light Weight Digital Rights Management System (LWDRM) was launched last year. The system uses digital signatures to overcome what the Institute has called the consumer unfriendliness of existing approaches to DRM.
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My stance has been, for a long time, that I will no longer use anything that resembles drm. I have music files that I ligitimately purchased that I can no longer listen to because the source has gone out of business. There is no legal or practical way to recover them.
If I buy a CD I can play it over and over again on any CD player (ignoring illegal protections on some CDs). Same thing for a DVD or book. They endure regardless of the player. DRM tagged files in many cases cannot be transferred to another device. If they can be transferred they generally cannot be again transferred to a third device. This means, not only can I not play them on my laptop, my home system, my htpc, my handheld and my car but, far worse, if I upgrade my system twice I'm just plain out of luck.
Imagine if you will, not being able to play some of your favorite music just because you bought a new CD player.
Forget it. DRM is not acceptable under any circumstances.
Bill Budenholzer
But I feel that this may be the lesser of many evils. 
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