Adobe Flaw Allows Full Movie Downloads For Free 166
webax writes with this excerpt from Reuters:
"[An Adobe security hole] exposes online video content to the rampant piracy that plagued the music industry during the Napster era and is undermining efforts by retailers, movie studios and television networks to cash in on a huge Web audience. 'It's a fundamental flaw in the Adobe design. This was designed stupidly,' said Bruce Schneier ... The flaw rests in Adobe's Flash video servers that are connected to the company's players installed in nearly all of the world's Web-connected computers. The software doesn't encrypt online content, but only orders sent to a video player such as start and stop play. To boost download speeds, Adobe dropped a stringent security feature that protects the connection between the Adobe software and its players."
webax also notes that the article suggests DRM as a potential solution to the problem.
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Re:Doublethink (Score:4, Funny)
To boost download speeds, Adobe dropped a stringent security feature that protects the connection between the Adobe software and its players." webax also notes that the article suggests DRM as a potential solution to the problem.
Whoa. Just...whoa. Friday night cognitive dissonance too much to handle!
Re:Doublethink (Score:3, Funny)
I know, I actually read the article. Strange to be sure.
Re:Doublethink (Score:1, Funny)
Or maybe you marked him as "friend" in order to taunt him after he temporarily marked you as a foe.
He's an easy tweak like that.
The internet enables free downloads. Seriously. (Score:5, Funny)
You know what else allows full movie downloads for free?
THE INTERNET.
Re:Ming boggles... (Score:5, Funny)
He's also Merciless!
flaw? (Score:5, Funny)
"Adobe Flaw Allows Full Movie Downloads For Free"
its not a flaw, its a feature!
Obvious question (Score:3, Funny)
What's the easiest and fastest way to take complete advantage of this?
I want links!
Do these idiots never learn? (Score:4, Funny)
Actually I do have a bulletproof method of DRM that customers will accept. There's no patent - it's currently a trade secret. I could show them how it works without revealing the secret, and they could license it from me.
I only want $40m cash up front, and 10% of the back end.
I'm calling it MP[34]. Of course with licensing comes naming rights. I think "Plays For Now" is not yet taken.
It's like 0-day shipping (Score:5, Funny)
It's just like their instant delivery service, available for items that you've put on your wish list in advance. The way it works is that, when you put an item on your wish list, they ship it to you. Then, if you buy it, they give you the tracking number, you go to the shipper's site, and find that the item is on your porch, at which point you bring it inside and open it. If you don't buy it, eventually the shipper notices that it's been sitting on your porch for a while unclaimed and brings it back to Amazon.
In related news ... (Score:5, Funny)
In related news, researches have discovered that Gutenberg's printing press [wikipedia.org] has similar flaws. By using modern technology such as photocopiers or cameras, or older technology such as monks and pens (or additional printing presses) criminals can create nearly identical copies of items printed with the press, depriving the original creators of the material of much needed compensation.
Gutenberg did not immediately return calls for comment, however it's theorized that he did not build in an encryption option to his printing press in order to boot comprehension speeds (Simple substitution ciphers [wikipedia.org] were well established at the time of the creation of the printing press, and Gutenburg could have easily applied their techniques in the creation of his press, however it's not entire certain how effective it would have been at preventing piracy. (Somewhat (at most) effective DRM techniques were developed centuries later.))