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Comment DiVx brought this up years ago. (Score 1) 275

by suineg on Saturday June 06, 2009 @02:47PM (#28235041) Attached to: The Perils of DRM — When Content Providers Die

The whole DiVx disc thing made this an issue forever ago.

We still have not gotten past what we would do about DRM that 'turns off' when the company goes under.

What a responsible company should do is give out the software necessary to either negate that specific DRM or at least to facilitate the making of authentication methods to be used at home if it can't be negated as in discs like DiVx.

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