Comment by sidewndr46
9 hours ago
so if I base64 encode my blog, have some Javascript that 'validates' an authorized viewer and then decodes the base64 into HTML which is added to the DOM does that constitute DRM ?
9 hours ago
so if I base64 encode my blog, have some Javascript that 'validates' an authorized viewer and then decodes the base64 into HTML which is added to the DOM does that constitute DRM ?
Yes.
I would say no because you need to retain the control over the IP from your end.
Typically DRMs are implemented server-side so you can control user access in that way.
The DMCA doesn't care exactly how the authorization works, it only cares that it's needed.
Quote from Wikipedia[0] of DMCA section 103:
> No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. > "circumvent a technological measure" means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and > a technological measure "effectively controls access to a work" if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention_laws#Circum...