High Fidelity recently (March 22,2018) announced an alliance for publishing assets such as identity, textures, 3D objects, animations and scenes over http using blockchain for the DRM. Content

Keep in mind that DRM isn't about encryption, that's just a means to an end. DRM is about preventing piracy and enabling flexible pricing models. If you come up with a better way of

I could be totally wrong and maybe this approach has already been considered but what about finding a way to put the content on a blockchain with multi-signature smart contracts? Granted the

I'm told that IP hinders if not entirely obviates the possibility of creating a reasonable open-source DRM solution. That may well be the case. In addition to that, the point of security is to protect

Hi Jordan, Thanks for writing and your interest. One of the first items of business for the new ASWF will be to create the "project submission process". This will allow new and existing projects to

Yes – the group is literally only hours old. More info to come over the next few days of SIGGRAPH, Rob to speak Monday, and a BOF Tues 9am. Stay tuned and hope you find some interesting

I recall 3d blender started as proprietary then made open-source via buyout. Any chance this foundation could do the same with ToonBoom? Thank you for listening.

It seems this all went live today. Based on a Variety article, the head of ILM, Rob Bredow, will be mentioning it in his Siggraph keynote on Monday. We're likely to get some more info from that, so we

This group seems very new and i'm somehow the first one to post. That being said, what projects would we like to pursue? I would very much like to be a part of whatever we come up with on here.