Comment Re:Anyone noticed (Score 1) 348
At least with open source DRM you know they are only doing what they say. Not a big difference, but also not a big cost.
That's not going to happen. The only thing that makes DRM schemes work at all is security-through-obscurity. If we have an open source DRM module then anyone who can read C/C++/whatever can look at the source and see not only the encryption algorithm used, but also where in memory to look for the encryption key. DRM is stupid, but it's not that stupid.
Which is probably why (if I understand the proposal correctly) the proposal is for an API rather than an implementation. In fact...
This specification does not define a content protection or Digital Rights Management system. Rather, it defines a common API that may be used to discover, select and interact with such systems as well as with simpler content encryption systems
So "it's ok, it's going to be open source" isn't terribly reassuring, either.