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Hole in Adobe software allows access to movies

Flaw gives users free access to record Amazon.com's streaming service
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26907946/

Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!

WOW

Adobe fix tonight

gadget

I wonder if silverlight is protected from such piracy. If so it would be a good op for Microsoft to take advantage of Adobe's failure.

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to gadget

#Sep 27th, 2008 @ 6:02 PM

Unlikely. DRM requires compliance at the consumer end and alternative (yet "official") Silverlight players, like Moonlight are GPL'd so would unlikely support any DRM.

So if there was any DRM it would only be supported in Microsoft's implementation, which is Windows-only, and if Amazon did that then everyone who matters (i.e. Mac bloggers) would be up-in-arms.

evildictaitor
if( !succeed( try() ) ) { while(true) try(); }

In reply to W3bbo

#Sep 27th, 2008 @ 6:21 PM

Silverlight's media player element uses your (native) codecs, which means that you could, at least in principle, stream DRM content to Silverlight which defers it to the codec to decode. Linux and Mac implementations would need to have a DRM enabled codec in order to play the content, which is more than doable on a Mac, but unlikely on Linux (due to the analness of Linux and their inability to see that DRM content is better than no content)

Bass
www.spreadfirefox.com/5years/

In reply to evildictaitor

#Sep 27th, 2008 @ 8:08 PM

The Linux people do implement DRM. Of course they only half implement it: they implement the decryption part, so you can watch the movie. Of course they conveniently forget to implement the restrictions part (maybe on a todo list planned for after the end of the world?), so there is no real differential between something that is DRMed and no DRM with respect to what you can do with it.

Of course this is all possible because the fundamental mathematical axioms which enable DRM in the first place greatly favor the hackers and not the people implementing the DRM. Even though this may be against the law of some or most regions, mathematical and physical laws (you can attach some kind of religion to this idea) trump just about everything. They literally can not be broken, while the laws of human beings can. Sad for human lawmakers (and DRM) I guess.

Maybe Microsoft/Adobe can subcontract God to write DRM, but somehow with his tradtional emphasis on sharing is caring, he might not agree to it. Unless it's for some mad money.

Yggdrasil
Pour me a cab, 'cause I can't drink no more.

In reply to Bass

#Sep 27th, 2008 @ 9:19 PM

That's a silly argument. It sounds like you're pitting natural laws against, well, legal laws, and claiming that one is stronger than the other and thus it is some sort of predestined necessity for DRM to be cracked. There's no relation between the two, and the mathemtical 'laws' aren't laws in the legal sense, they're just descriptions of natural phenomena, not prescriptive behaviors. Claiming that the inherent mathematical crackability of DRM makes it 'physically illegal' not to crack them. It's like saying it's physically illegal for me not to drop a rock on someone's head, because that would break the law of gravity.

Math doesn't crack DRM. People crack DRM.

Bass
www.spreadfirefox.com/5years/

In reply to Yggdrasil

#Sep 28th, 2008 @ 12:04 AM

I am saying the axioms of mathematics are at odds with DRM. Therefore I think mathematics should be banned (or put into jail). And the laws of gravity should be repealed. Yes. Something like that. I think.

I will successfully sell this idea to the RIAA/MPAA. Damn BA majors don't even know how to multiply without their fingers!

Yggdrasil
Pour me a cab, 'cause I can't drink no more.

In reply to Bass

#Sep 28th, 2008 @ 12:40 AM

Why stop with gravity? I say the hell with electromagnetics too! Too long have our bits and bytes been shackled to the spinning HDD plates of oppression! Let them run free, says I! Let me nybbles go!

ZippyV
Fired Up

In reply to evildictaitor

#Sep 27th, 2008 @ 8:08 PM

Unfortunately, Moonlight on Linux doesn't do much. I can play a local wmv file but watching a video from Channel9's site is not possible.

There's a Hole in your software, Adobe, Adobe...

Hole in Adobe software allows access to movies

Flaw gives users free access to record Amazon.com's streaming servicehttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26907946/

Flaw gives users free access to record Amazon.com's streaming service
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26907946/