5 Dec
2005
5 Dec
'05
3:12 a.m.
woodelf wrote:
> The future of software protection is coming, and
it's not pretty.
> Public-key assymetric encryption schemes are already in use; your
> software phones the mothership to authenticate. Joy.
Yes, and not just application or games software either. Think DRM; you hand
money over to the provider and they dictate how you can use the thing you've
just paid for on your own hardware, whether it be video, still images, music etc.
It's OK whilst you can still buy that data in non DRM form, but that choice
won't be around forever the way things are going. It's going to be a sorry
place for the consumer in a few years time...
cheers
Jules