Comments on: BitTorrent Inc Foresees a Future Without DRM

By: Phishing by proxy | GeekLike

Phishing by proxy | GeekLike — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:24:32 +0000

[...] In September of this year Ashwin Navin, the co-founder of BitTorrent Inc said that his company foresees a future without DRM. Although, even then, the company had said that they would use DRM, Navin also made it clear that it would only be in the early stages. Let’s hope the POA hasn’t changed. [...]

By: BitTorrent Video Store to be Infected with Windows DRM at Torrentfreak

BitTorrent Video Store to be Infected with Windows DRM at Torrentfreak — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:15:18 +0000

By: Subblog! » Blog Archive » Ashwin Navin Interview

Subblog! » Blog Archive » Ashwin Navin Interview — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:36:35 +0000

[...] In his interview from DigiTimes he talks about some topics like implementing DRM, peer assisted video distribution and BitTorrent beyond the PC. [...]

By: Ashwin Navin Interview at Torrentfreak

Ashwin Navin Interview at Torrentfreak — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:02:15 +0000

[...] DigiTimes interviewed Ashwin Navin, president and co-founder of BitTorrent. He talks about some familiar topics like implementing DRM, peer assisted video distribution and BitTorrent beyond the PC. [...]

By: TuxPaper

TuxPaper — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:09:13 +0000

Sixdays,

The DRM’d file can be the same. Usually the license is stored elsewhere on your computer. That’s why you get the aquire license message when you first play the media. It usually goes out on the internet to verify that you bought the content, then flags it in your computer’s DRM database.

That aside, I think DRM is pointless from a “stopping illegal copies” standpoint. By the time any legal online site gets the media, it’s already been out in the illegal world and anyone who didn’t want to pay already has it. From a “limit the # of views, copies, view time” point of view, I can understand why DRM is there, although I certainly wouldn’t pay for any media with those limitations (unless it was 0.10cents ;) )

By: SixDays http://sixdays.se

SixDays http://sixdays.se — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:28:22 +0000

What strikes my mind is that if they are using DRM, it will not be possible to use the users as seeds, since every file will be unique. If they don’t implement some kind of DRM scheme that allows them to separate license altogether from the DRM infected files. Or am I out in the blue?