[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] Identify DRM protected asf file

The Wanderer inverseparadox at comcast.net
Wed Feb 28 23:48:17 CET 2007


Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> Hello, On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:08:34PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:43:05PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer
>> wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> hmmmmm, what about "infected", "contaminated"
>> 
>> While these words are a little off-meaning, I agree that even
>> "restricted" isn't good enough. It suggests that MPlayer is
>> enforcing a restriction, whereas the problem is that the data is
>> obfuscated in a way that's inaccessible to MPlayer. If no other
>> good words are found, I like Michael's alright. :)
> 
> Well, the most correct is either "encrypted" or "obfuscated" without
> any "DRM" depending on how/where the key is stored, but that doesn't
> make the message better to understand

I thought that the standard, accepted term was "encumbered"?

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