LinuxDevices: DRM Out of Balance

“In a Linuxdevices.com guest column back in 2002, I argued that
without a major attitude change, digital rights management (DRM)
technologies would cause software security failures and generate
safety problems for everything from medical equipment to military
systems. (That article basically said that systems with built-in
DRM would create security problems for non-target cases.)

“The recent Sony BMG DRM fiasco, which resulted from a common
failure of requirements management logic, shows that developers of
DRM systems have not had that attitude adjustment…”

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