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I am studying about the basics of DRM systems. I recently discovered that the term packager is the application that encrypts the original content from the creator. Is there any other work this packager does?
Continue reading What are the roles of the "PACKAGER" in a digital rights management system?
I am trying to figure out whether it’s safe to let a payed software check its own license date validity using the client’s computer
the way this is done is by invoking time.time() function from python and comparing it to the hashed licens… Continue reading python time since epoch hacking system variable
The simmering duel between farmers and agricultural machinery manufacturers over access to the software to unlock the DRM which excludes all but the manufacturer’s agents from performing repairs goes on. How this plays out will have implications for the right to repair for everyone on many more devices than simply …read more
Continue reading Right To Repair: Tractor Manufacturers Might Have Met Their Match In Australia
According to users on Reddit and ResetEra, Bethesda launched Doom Eternal with a DRM-free copy of the game’s executable sitting in plain sight amid the download package. Ars Technica reports: Forum users on Reddit and ResetEra were among the first yest… Continue reading Bethesda Apparently Broke Its Own Denuvo Protection For Doom Eternal
For the past few years now we’ve covered a long-running battle between American farmers and the manufacturers of their farm machinery, over their right to repair, with particular focus on the agricultural giant John Deere. The manufacturer of the familiar green and yellow machinery that lies in the heart and …read more
I would like to share some “sensible” PDFs into a web application that I own.
Logged users should only be able to browse that PDFs online, therefore they shouldn’t be able to download the source PDF file and it should be as complicated as … Continue reading Secure display PDF in web page
I Want to release software and it is going to be hosted on the client system. How to make sure that it should not be copied or how to restrict unpaid users using the software.
I have 2 questions.
What are the different options to implem… Continue reading How to restrict software distribution or make sure it should not be copied
I am trying to understand how DRM works under the hood. There doesn’t seem to be much information about it on the web so I figured I would ask here.
After some attempted research, I found it extremely difficult to find any … Continue reading How does Widevine, FairPlay, and other DRM’s work under the hood?
It’s fair to say that the hearts and minds of Hackaday readers lie closer to the technology centres of Shenzhen or Silicon Valley than they do to the soybean fields of Minnesota. The common link is the desire to actually own the hardware we buy. Among those working the soil …read more
Continue reading DMCA-Locked Tractors Make Decades-Old Machines the New Hotness
Two months after its surprise reveal at the 2019 East Coast RepRap Festival, the Prusa Mini has started shipping out to the first wave of early adopters. True to form, with the hardware now officially released to the public, the company has begun the process of releasing the design as …read more
Continue reading Prusa Dares You to Break Their Latest Printer