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Re: GSS API...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Roskind)
Wed Aug 17 01:42:31 1994
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 19:16:14 -0700
From: Jim Roskind <jar@infoseek.com>
To: rmasse@cnri.reston.va.us, www-security@ns1.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <9408161531.aa14041@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> (rmasse@CNRI.Reston.VA.US)
> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 94 15:31:40 -0400
> From: "Roger Masse's the named" <rmasse@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
>
> [simple, and possibly incomplete crypto authentication solution]
>
> I like this approach, simple separation of tasks. However isn't
> this only solving the easy problem? The tip of the Iceburg?
>
> How do you protect the rights of the copyright holder enough to
> convince publishers to begin to use this method for dispursing intellectual
> property? There is more protection with hardcopy books. Sure I
> can give my bought-and-paid-for copy to someone else, but then I no
> longer have it. Or I could painstakingly rip appart the binding
> and copy the book for someone, but this is cumbersome... and time consuming
> and often the effort is not worth the value of the copy of the book.
> Put the book in electronic form, however, and copying is a snap
> once the client has decrypted their prize.
I think you are imagining up a problem that you can't solve. First of
all, many electronic information vendors are already distributing
their information. Example: Ziff's Computer Select database
distributed on CD-ROM. The information is copyrighted. There are
laws, and it would appear that the copyright restriction is being
honored (at least sufficiently that information vendors are making
money, and commerce is growing). You might argue that this is fine
for "low priced docs" such as articles from magazines, but would never
work for expensive docs. I would note that expensive docs distributed
in paper form (example: stock market related info) are also
copyrighted, and that it is often *much* less expensive to "xerox"
than purchase. Yet the theft problem does not exist (at least to an
extent that is sufficient to preclude commercial activity with such
paperbound info).
What have I missed?
> Regards,
>
> Roger E. Masse, Systems Engineer
> Corporation for National Research Initiatives
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