CD DRM: Threat Models and Business Models
by Ed Felten
Alex and I are working on an academic paper, "Lessons from the Sony CD DRM Episode", which will analyze several not-yet-discussed aspects of the XCP and MediaMax CD copy protection technologies, and will try to put the Sony CD episode in context and draw lessons for the future. We'll post the complete paper here next Friday. Until then, we'll post drafts of a few sections here. We have two reasons for this: we hope the postings will be interesting in themselves, and we hope your comments will help us improve the paper.
Today's excerpt is from a section early in the paper, where we are still setting the scene before the main technical discussion begins:
Posted 5 years ago by Monty Solomon in General Telecommunications Forum
