Microsoft puts DRM in P2P

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Trust Microsoft to try to make money out of an oxymoron. Because that’s what putting DRM in the same sentence as P2P amounts to.

Steve and the Boyz reckon they’ve found a way to use DRM on P2P networks to distribute commercial media online.

It “works like a standard torrent network,” says Cryptopatents. When a user wants the content, “his machine grabs a list of the nearest peers and what parts of the content they have,” it says, going on, “The user downloads the individual pieces and the file is reassembled on his computer.”

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