Microsoft Patents DRM'd Torrents

Anonymous Crobar writes "Microsoft has received a patent for a 'digital rights management scheme for an on-demand distributed streaming system,' or using a P2P network to distribute commercial media content. The patent, #7,639,805, covers a method of individually encrypting each packet with a separate key and allowing users to decrypt differing levels of quality depending on the license that has been purchased."

Re:That's actually pretty clever

[Anonymous Coward]

Certainly solves a good half of the people-steal-everything problem.

What the fuck are you talking about? I'll just jump on the usual pirated torrent, thanks.

Re:That's actually pretty clever

[Impy the Impiuos Imp]

Did they remember to patent hacking the encryption within 30s of release? Otherwise the hackers will get away with it!

Embrace, extend, extinguish

[HeckRuler]

FINALLY Microsoft reaches out to embrace, extend, and extinguish DRM.