[opensource-dev] oh give me a break

Gareth Nelson gareth at garethnelson.com
Tue Mar 16 02:58:59 PDT 2010


736 iPhone apps on TPB to be precise - actually much lower than I
would have thought, although some of the torrents are hack tools and
packs of apps (one such torrent is 3.6GB and includes a few 100
separate apps).

Perhaps the only platform right now that hasn't been cracked to enable
piracy is the Sony PS3 due to the extensive hardware enforcement
(right down to an isolated SPU inside the cell processor) - and that's
coming apart as we speak. Yours truly even has been hard at work
trying to get custom code to run in fear of my older fat PS3 breaking
down and needing to be replaced with the slim (which lacks linux
support). Oh, and when I say piracy hasn't happened on the PS3 yet,
i'm only talking about retail bluray discs, lots of games from the
playstation store have been downloaded without payment by various
people. Something personally I object to since it does cost Sony money
to provide the bandwidth, but there we go.......

Once the PS3 is broken, there'll be no current platform that is not
"piracy enabled". And you have to consider as well that a PC (such as
what SL runs on) running a general-purpose OS is designed to give the
user vastly more control than any games console or mobile phone.

DRM is an uphill struggle even where you can control the hardware.

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Anders Arnholm <Anders at arnholm.se> wrote:
> Kevin Woolley wrote:
>> c. Create an 'iPhone' like walled garden.  There are numerous ways you could
>> do this, for example required all connection to the grid to operate via a
>> licensed closed-source version of libsl which uses some form of
>> public/private key to identify itself.  Or why not strip back the viewer so
>> it's analogous to the iPhone hardware and licence 'applet' development for
>> it?
>>
>>
> For sure iPhone aint jail-breaked and there are no iPhone apps on the
> piratebay.... some think the rates of copied content in iPhone is higher
> that any other phone. Sure looks like a bright future.
>
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