Why DRM Cannot Protect Copyrights  ---  Workshop on Digital Rights Management 22-23 January 2001   Digitale Hanse, Hamburg
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    The Broken Link

In a DRM setup the user initially is forced to use special facilities to 'consume' the digital content either by viewing or listening. There is no way out for the content. But it is easy to e.g.

   *   grab the image by screenshot
   *   catch the audio stream by sampling.

Content can be brought to the Internet by many other ways which are not under the control of DRM systems:

   *   image scanning
   *   CD grabbing

The link between work and owner is broken.


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