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> Good faith effort. It doesn't have to do it flawlessly.

From what I gather from TFA, they are nowhere near what the industry could consider a good faith effort. They basically need some way to invalidate the original file (and any illegitimate copies of it) while keeping the legitimate copy valid.



The only way to do that is to have the software ask the permission of a central server to be allowed to play a certain music file. Scary stuff.


Remembering DivX and how that turned out....




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