[SailfishDevel] Jolla Harbour and Jolla Store

Jonni Rainisto jonni.rainisto at jolla.com
Thu Nov 7 21:40:11 UTC 2013


DRM has nothing to to do with with copy protection. DRM on mobile devices usually means supporting DRM PlayReady (Microsoft) or Widevine L1 L2 L3 L4 (google). And we dont have those in Sailfish OS.

There is no Aegis on the system, and after you enable developer mode, you have _true_ root access to the device and can freely replace system binaries and do what ever you want with your device (you may lose warranty when you enable developer mode).

Everything is crackable, copy protection library is just supposed to make cracking and copying process hard enough so that most of the people will just choose to use store for getting their rpm's. And to give app developers easier ways to give some protection their applications so direct .rpm file copy from device to device wont work, so you don't have to invent the wheel again and again by creating their own copy protection solutions. And if you have a danger of beeing blacklisted from Store if your detected of using cracked applications it also might scare some people from using cracked apps.

Nobody forces you to use any copy protection libraries in your applications that you develop or you can try to create your own solution. And you can just choose not to use any protection in your commercial appliations (then your applications can be freely copied from device to device, just like on N9).

Hopefully that answered your question.

re, Jonni
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From: devel-bounces at lists.sailfishos.org [devel-bounces at lists.sailfishos.org] on behalf of Attila Csipa [qt at csipa.in.rs]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 10:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [SailfishDevel] Jolla Harbour and Jolla Store

On 07-Nov-13 01:42, Jonni Rainisto wrote:
> We are working hard on adding copy protection

In the context of "Will you support DRM? No" in your FAQ, and having an
open, hackable device environment, please do elaborate. I sincerely hope
that Jolla has learned from the Aegis experience and general "success"
of copy-protection schemes on other platforms.

Best regards,
Attila
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