But if this can't done how can they be attracting millions in venture
capital, signing partnerships with media companies, etc., etc. Just look
at their website and the press releases. Is this a case of the 'knig
wearing no clothes'? Jeff
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Fisher Mark wrote:
> >I came across a company called InterTrust that claims to have developed a
> >system whereby digital content can be downloaded to a user's PC, the user
> >be required to pay for 'rights' to use the content under certain 'rules'
> >set by the content provider and yet the user will somehow be prevented
> >from copying, duplicating or distributing the content. This system is
> >supposed to work offline.
>
> This can't be done without adding lots of additional hardware to the user's
> PC. You really need to have a decrypting display device, so that the
> decrypted datastream is not present anywhere in the PC. Otherwise, you can
> definitely extract the decrypted data from somewhere in the PC. Intel has
> recently talked about such a decrypting display, BTW.
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> Mark Leighton Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Thomson Consumer Electronics Indianapolis IN
> "Their walls are built of cannon balls,
> Their motto is 'don't tread on me'"
>
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