A prominent computer security researcher has proposed a technical solution aimed at forging a middle ground in the increasingly bitter battle by Hollywood and Silicon Valley over the best way to protect digital content from consumer piracy.
Cryptography Research has begun circulating its proposal, which it calls Self-Protecting Digital Content , among entertainment companies. It plans to make it available publicly this week, in an effort to break the impasse over the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which Congress passed in 1998 with strong lobbying support from Hollywood and other creators of intellectual property.
Cryptography Research’s proposal would shift the location of copy-protection code from the consumer products that play music and movies and run software to the content files produced by entertainment companies and software developers. The plan aims to help avoid the immense costs of building piracy protection into personal computers, video game players, satellite receivers and other devices produced by technology manufacturers. While it would not eliminate the possibility of digital theft, its advocates said it would drastically curb piracy while easing the burden on the technology industry.
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