[Arm-netbook] EOMA68: DRM and Tivoisation

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at lkcl.net
Wed Sep 7 02:54:56 BST 2016


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On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 2:22 AM, Matt Campbell <mattcampbell at pobox.com> wrote:
> Agreed about DRM only being allowed within the strict confines of a
> hardware-virtualized guest OS. Such DRM is ultimately toothless, of course,
> because the host can always be modified to grab perfect digital copies of
> the audio, video, or whatever is coming out of the guest.

 ... yeah: which is why i added the bit about the hardware-virtualised
guest *not* being permitted to have any kind of influence *outside* of
the guest VM (such as, for example, "if it ain't running the video
stops working" - that sort of thing).

 is there a way that you think that could be made clearer?

l.



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