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Analog Hole Limits of DRMThe "analog hole" is the process of circumventing any digital rights management system (designed to enforce the copyright of content owners over content such as digital songs or movies) by capturing the content as it is being played out in analog form, re digitizing it, and then making it available to others. The analog hole fundamentally limits what any DRM system can achieve, but at some impact to the quality of the content. Given this loss in quality, how much exactly does the analog hole limit DRM? We are using different analog hole copying variants on audio, video, and text along with econometric techniques to answer the question in terms of consumer value measured in dollars. See this student paper from summer 2005. |
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