<story><title>Leaping Brain&apos;s &quot;Virtually Uncrackable&quot; DRM is just an XOR with &quot;RANDOM_STRING&quot;</title><url>https://plus.google.com/101700526665328331501/posts/Yk71MgkvAXx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eliezer</author><text>Maybe there&apos;s a scheme here to prevent good DRM by flooding the market with highly inflated impressive-sounding claims attached to laughable security.  The Old Media crowd won&apos;t be able to solve the Design Paradox (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html&lt;/a&gt;) well enough to tell who&apos;s lying, good designs won&apos;t be able to charge more than laughable competition, and the DRM field will slowly die.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwr</author><text>I have this theory that some DRM schemes were intentionally sabotaged by engineers (DVD CSS comes to mind) to be weaker than they could be, for moral reasons.</text></comment>
<story><title>Leaping Brain&apos;s &quot;Virtually Uncrackable&quot; DRM is just an XOR with &quot;RANDOM_STRING&quot;</title><url>https://plus.google.com/101700526665328331501/posts/Yk71MgkvAXx</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Eliezer</author><text>Maybe there&apos;s a scheme here to prevent good DRM by flooding the market with highly inflated impressive-sounding claims attached to laughable security.  The Old Media crowd won&apos;t be able to solve the Design Paradox (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html&lt;/a&gt;) well enough to tell who&apos;s lying, good designs won&apos;t be able to charge more than laughable competition, and the DRM field will slowly die.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KateLawson</author><text>Though there is no organized conspiracy, this is actually not far from the truth, especially in some areas of content protection. Companies that don&apos;t have the in-house technical expertise (music labels), working from an unprotected distribution system (audio CD) are at a particular disadvantage.&lt;p&gt;At the other end of the spectrum, you have satellite TV. In this area, a lot of money invested and full control of the playback platform have resulted in some strong systems. But still, it took a long time and a lot of cracks of intermediate systems for this industry to become the success story it is today.&lt;p&gt;Disclaimer: I worked for a company involved in the above.</text></comment>