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Originally Posted by dozey
Wow, okay. You realize what SSL stands for right? It's for end-to-end encryption i.e., the content is decrypted at either end of the network. That's not even the problem when it comes to preventing sharing.... it's good as pirated once the user has a decrypted copy. Perhaps I'm missing something?
Most schemes deal with that problem by encrypting the content (as opposed to just licensing it) and then providing the viewer with a key to decrypt it (using closed software to avoid the aforementioned piracy). Guess how well those schemes worked out?
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It seems you like many others are stuck to already existing concepts and cannot see how more widely they can be adapted. I'm well aware that SSL is a secure encrypted layer. do you know how this layer works in order to provide secure channel? first it must provide 100% safe and secure validation of 2 parties - this mechanism is not limited only for HTTPS use if you start thinking out of box. You can issue SSL cert. licences for content for instance, as a true receipt of purchase; you can then give such cert. license to a person or integrate it inside digital media, trackers can already validate pieces of content by hashes and probably some other new means so providing side can keep hash of provided media content along with SSL cert of purchaser. Further thinking for my concept is more complex. First you need to establish ISO Standard for Licence Validation or Digital Right Management that involves establishing consortium similar to what W3C does which then will promote benefits to adapt License Validation Standard for everything computer/digital media/internet related - so companies can built in to editing and media creation software to encompass these SSL certs into media - this thing to develop right way won't happen within few years like it was expected with DRM - that's why it failed. It will take decades to establish and adopt globally any kind of license validation standard - only then we could get to any type of free global redundant backup services based on proper license validation. The consortium will develop technical aspect of limited content sharing so you can expand fair use right to send for instance favorite mp3 to your buddy of girlfriend but not distribute it to the whole world. point is SSL is perfect secure validation mechanism which can be applied anywhere where you need proper validation of involved parties not only for network communication.
current trackers are not an answer for fair use, they promote piracy. we desperately need digital media license validation mechanism - preferably decentralized. and I realize who ever decides to start developing such standard for digital media will face huge challenges, but technically it is already possible now. this is just a rough idea and not a perfect thought out concept.