HackinOut

People are ok to pay. Netflix is a proof.

However, IMO it's still not good enough: Netflix is simple and very accessible, but not enough (recent) content. Because content providers are abusing DRM and it's purpose.

I don't think they're that stupid, i.e. they certainly are all for iPods today... But they are certainly very slow...

Ironically, iPod & iTunes were using DRM (FairPlay) on launch!

I don't think it's DRM itself killing innovation but the overuse of the actual "control over software and hardware providers".

What makes products like the iPod or Netflix successful, despite their use of DRMs, is their simplicity and accessibility among other things. Netflix is trying hard to negotiate for more content, but I think content providers are killing innovation mainly by not allowing initiatives like Netflix to have all the content in one place. We need a Spotify (i.e. most of the content available) for movies...

Edit: elaborating...

I think it's used widely enough: God is it ugly... You are screwing up with FPS and then you have to re-encode on top of your already encoded (i.e. not raw), captured thing , eww... Plenty of cleaner ways, like DVD or Blu-Rays which protections are cracked and with which you get the untampered original.

"Sure, the DRM systems have all been broken [...]"

I have worked with MS PlayReady DRM (which is the "latest" one from Microsoft, the one used by Netflix) for some time and never stumbled upon any cracks. Not because it's impossible or even difficult but probably just because nobody cares about cracking Netflix (which brings PlayReady it's main source of "users")... Once you pay, you can watch as much as you like, why bother. Netflix made it extremely simple and accessible. (Yes some features like multicasting might be missing but it's still way better than Plesk or PopcornTime. For now at least... The main problem is clearly that the Film industry make it too difficult to have all content in one place). There is plenty of other "easier" sources (alternative VOD offerings with already cracked/worse protections, Blu-rays) to get the copyrighted material from for underground channels.

I am sure other DRM systems have a clear log for the same reason: No major incentive to crack them.

Here is an x86 emulator in Javascript running Linux 2.6.20 for those who might have missed it (2011): http://bellard.org/jslinux/

From the awesome Fabrice Bellard (qemu etc...)

Edit: Formatting, additional details

Apparently you got downvoted because this doesn't answer the question: no data is not insecure data. There is no hardware RNG that guarantees full time availability of unlimited secure data. Even if a black image would generate insecure data, it's easy to detect a black image.

It seems to me that this could be very innovative in therm of security by possibly supplanting CSPRNG (Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generators - many of which (or their implementations) were discovered insecure in the past) in some practical scenarios.