Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HARDWARE BASED.
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From: Tomas Szepe <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 17:12:46 +0200
To: Dean McEwan <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HARWARE BASED.
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E.G. a kernel could refuse to work after one year forcing its users to upgrade their kernel, preventing exploits being left in place, and creators of the prefab kernels in a sticky liable mess.
Well, I reckon people who have an irresistible temptation to fish out their C64 to play Bubble Bobble[1] every time somebody comes to visit would have a pretty distinct opinion on this "feature."
Hmm.. I have no problem making it so that Abandonware software is autmatically decrypted, however that means a master key system :) and thats a no no in
our GPL world. The key would just me used by everybody :) LOL.
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-- Tomas Szepe <[email protected]> [1] http://www.bubandbob.com/
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