Monday, March 31, 2008

Technology Behind "Anti-Piracy Technologies"

A Taxonomy of Methods for Software Piracy Prevention

http://www.croninsolutions.com/writing/piracytaxonomy.pdf

Protecting and Managing Electronic Content with a Digital Battery. Budd, T. (August 2001). IEEE Computer.

RIAA, MPAA Target File Swapping on Internet2

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,120425-page,1/article.html

A functional taxonomy for software watermarking

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=563801.563822

Discouraging Software Piracy Using Software Aging

Revised Papers from theACM CCS-8 Workshop on Security and Privacy in Digital Rights Management 2002

Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture ... .Lawrence Lessig, Penguin Publishing, 2004.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I found the article "A Taxonomy of Methods for Software Piracy
Prevention" quite informative, as it was an easy to understand comprehensive summary of piracy prevention techniques. However, I believe that in order to get the most out of them, a combination of all three should be implemented.
Also, from an ethical perspective, one should wonder why it is that some people choose to engage in piracy while others don't. And also, when targeting filesharing programs, should there be a differentiation in the "punishment" of those that share files and those that just download?
Then again, from a purely economic point of view, perhaps if itunes didn't cost the exorbitant 1$/song perhaps the amount of P2P network activity would decrease.

Anonymous said...

http://www.indicare.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=94

A really good, well researched article discussing a middle ground between DRM or not DRM. It basically puts forth a new business model that protects intellectual property while enabling a fair use policy that most people can agree with. It's a business model that is sustainable, but probably needs some tweaking.