AMD's New DRM

DefectiveByDesign writes "Remember how AMD said they'd make use of ATI's GPU technology to make better technology? Well, not all change is progress. InfoWorld's Tom Yager reports that AMD plans to block access to the framebuffer in hardware to help enforce DRM schemes, such as allowing more restricted playback of Sony Blu-Ray disks. They can pry my Print Screen key from my cold, dead fingers."

Re:Bread & Circuses

[Hoi Polloi]

[Sung to the tune of "Three's Company"]

"Come and buy our crap,"
"we're now shilling to you"
"Where the rights are only ours and ours and ours,"
"we're now a DRM company too!"

Re:Didn't these people ever watch Star Wars?

[wild_berry]

They're in cahoots with George Lucas. In the next edition he releases, that line's edited to say "Better technical prevention measures will prevent Star Systems from slipping through our fingers".

Re:Why do this?

[Pojut]

The computer I'm using now has no commercial software, so I, like other freedom fighters, should be o.k.

"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?" -George Carlin

Re:Power to the empire

[PDanger]

Psalms x64-x86
"And God said unto the Israelites
'Blessed is he who protects content
and, ye, shall the masses loath it
but God shall smile upon you,
and bless your blu-ray player
and the copy of Batman Begins
housed within it.' "

But, but... the RIAA needs Print Screen

[fahrbot-bot]

They can pry my Print Screen key from my cold, dead fingers.

If Print Screen is disabled, how will the RIAA gather evidence?