Re: [dvd-discuss] Digital Rights Management Gedanken Experiments

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The real question is if they TELL you it's being turned off or if they 
just "work around" it until you hack your way through the mess and 
find out what's been done.


> I have a colleague who wants to demonstrate the kind of
> problems that emerge when companies distribute content and
> then "turn it off" after a certain amount of time through
> encrypted controls. He is looking for a product that would
> help him demonstrate the problem, preferably shareware or
> open source. Does anybody know of such products where you
> can put a time limit on the display of content? (Even better
> if you can hide that fact from the user!)  He wants to use
> it on a Word or PowerPoint document.
> 
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