[imp] Ability to send “Copy Protected” mail

[Bernd Wolf]

I'm not a horde developer, only a user, Java is my daily job ;-)

BUT: to copy-protect something like email sounds like the useless tries
of people, wo think they can copy-protect their websites.
What a reason they have to do that, it's completely useless.

Only people, which don't like to watch behind some details are "copy
protected".
It's to be seen on the screen, that's why there will be no 100%
protection against a copy.

Only a lot of technical overhead, to complicate the things.

May be things are changing and nearly everbody will use something like
google-glass in the future.
These things could be coupled with monitor and only authorized person
gets the decoded view.
THIS could be a copy protection - and it will catch everybody, who is
trying to break it
(the glass will record the tries).


Bernd.


Am 12.09.2013 19:16, schrieb Andy Dorman:
> On 09/12/2013 11:24 AM, azurIt wrote:
>>> Quoting Andy Dorman <adorman at ironicdesign.com>:
>>>
>>>> I did a bit of searching and did not find anything discussing any
>>>> open IRM standards that could be used by Horde or any other open
>>>> source application.  But if such standards exist, I would hope we,
>>>> the horde community, could eventually expand the system to be able
>>>> to offer it.
>>>
>>> This is extremely unlikely to ever happen in IMP.  For about a billion
>>> different reasons.
>>
>>
>> Name the one thousand please.
>>
>> azur
>>
>
> Azur, if it is important enough to the community then we, the
> community, can step up and either pay the horde team to add it or one
> of us can do it ourselves and give it back to the community.
>
> I would certainly not expect something of this potential complexity to
> be added for free or soon though.  And the first step would have to be
> some sort of open IRM standards which I have not yet found to exist or
> even be in discussion.
>
> Also, too many big companies (with well paid lawyers) are making big $
> off it right now.  Because of that I bet Open Source IRM would
> probably be dragged into court on patent claims if it began to
> threaten their income in any way.
>