Microsoft Patents DRM'd Torrents 193
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 (Score:3, Funny)
What the fuck are you talking about? I'll just jump on the usual pirated torrent, thanks.
Re:That's actually pretty clever (Score:3, Funny)
Did they remember to patent hacking the encryption within 30s of release? Otherwise the hackers will get away with it!
Embrace, extend, extinguish (Score:5, Funny)