On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 08:43 +0100, David Greaves wrote: > Incidentally, who thinks the law should allow protection of this type of > information beyond "trade secret" - if an organisation is dumb enough to > expose > it's PKI keys then they deserve no legal protection.
http://www.angryflower.com/itsits.gif > However if someone breaks into a company HQ and steals a trade secret > then they should be allowed to prosecute them for theft of a trade > secret. That doesn't seem particularly relevant to this kind of DRM. The company _has_ to expose its keys to every single consumer who needs access to the content -- so how can it possibly be considered a secret? And no, I don't think it should get any protection _beyond_ the protection that trade secrets get, either. It should get no protection at all. -- dwmw2 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
