[liberationtech] Auto expiring document/files & 'rights to be forgotten'

[Griffin Boyce]

  Not to mention that it's also possible to print the document and keep it
in perpetuity.

  DRM isn't too difficult to break in most cases, and if your
document/product is in
high demand, it's likely that a pirated copy will float around the net at
some point. Most
products have such a high number of sales that these factors balance out,
so to be
honest, I personally would not worry too much about it. Most people would
rather
support the author.

Best,
Griffin



On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Meredith L. Patterson
<clonearmy at gmail.com>wrote:

> No. How do you address the problem of a user who wants to read the
> document simply rolling back the date on their computer's clock?
>
> Expensive DRM is expensive because people who don't understand the
> underlying math but still want to do impossible things are willing to
> pay snake-oil vendors astronomical amounts of money for unfounded
> promises. Don't buy into the hype.
>
> --mlp
>
> On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Frank Corrigan
> <email at franciscorrigan.com> wrote:
> > Let's say the information was within a PDF, but the person(s) creating
> > it wanted it to expire at future date and be technically irrecoverable
> > say through encryption, irregardless of whether printed or memorised, is
> > it technically possible at little or no cost?
> >
> > Apologies if I come across as naive, it is being built upon the
> > widespread use of DRM, that currently is too prohibitive in cost terms.
> > I don't want to post details of available DRM software safe to say it
> > costs around $1000 per user or hundreds or $'s per month for server
> > based authentication services.
> >
> > Frank
>