Sony, Intel To Push Content Protection 276
prostoalex writes "Intel and Sony are trying to please the copyright-alerted content publishers and privacy-aware consumers by supporting and pushing Digital Transmission Content Protection standard. New technology allows the consumer to use the downloaded content, but not distribute it outside of their home. A PDF presentation from an Intel engineer is available on dtcp.com."
*COUGH* bullshit (Score:4, Funny)
So, what happens if I turn up to volume a bit?
Re:*COUGH* bullshit (Score:4, Funny)
Re:*COUGH* bullshit (Score:2, Insightful)
Where is this taking us?
The optimistic future is that the "content" industry can stop being afraid of all that P2P-mess, and they can start cutting the prices, since P2P is the reason for the high prices...
The more realistic future is that they get an even firmer grip on the consumers and raise prices!
Should I buy some DRM-free hardware today and save for future use? Well, AMD releases new hardware tomorrow....
Handcuffs (Score:5, Insightful)
The analogy that springs to mind is that if you go to the public library, they let you borrow a book, only if you let them chain it to your wrist first.
Information was, is and should be free.
Re:Handcuffs (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Handcuffs (Score:2, Funny)
Real info was, is and remains free [nec.com].
Re:Handcuffs (Score:4, Insightful)
Jeez, I thought we grew out of this notion five years ago. I guess as a new generation discovers the Internet, we have to go through the drill over and over. Fair enough.
Information *IS* free. But Entertainment is not, never has been. Because I can render entertainment as data, clone it, and/or easily disseminate it doesn't mean I should. It most certainly does not mean I have a God-given and constitutionally-protected "right" to entertainment.
The Big Problem has always been: What type of technology will allow us to simultaneously protect a consumer's right to Fair Use while preventing him from illegally distributing the entertainment he has purchased? *Everybody* is working on this; if Sony is finally announcing some progress, my only question is "What took you so long?"
Re:Handcuffs (Score:5, Interesting)
The concept of someone "owning" a song is relatively new - the idea that someone wrote it is not.
It wasn't all that long ago that artists where happy for people to hear their work, because if it was good enough more people would pay to see them, and that would keep the food on the table.
The mega-stars of the end of the 20th, beginning of this century are a new invention (and a terrible one at that). If you want to see a good reason not to pay people these huge sums, look at what the fortune part of the fame & fortune did to their creativity....but that's another story.
Re:Handcuffs (Score:2)
Also, why should artists be millionaires? If an engineer does some good work, that's used by millions of people, he may be reasonably well-off. For instance, if I design a vacuum cleaner or a shock absorber, I might get a bonus, but I
Re:Handcuffs (Score:2)
The idea of equal pay for equal work is a more socialist and even communist ideology. On the other hand, socialism also often strays from reward based on performance. For example, unionized employees typically make the same pay regardless of whether they're a keener or a slacker
Re:Handcuffs (Score:2)
The end result of that politization is seen on plummetting CD sales. That's not what capitalism is about. In a capitalist economy, only the bottom line should matter in a corporation. It should not
Re:Handcuffs (Score:2)
Re:Handcuffs (Score:2)
Negotiation. I'm sure the record company's original contract was far more onerous than what they settled for. But they bet (incorrectly) on making a bundle on Mariah, and gave her a sweet deal at the risk of losing her. That's, as they say, Show Business.
In a capitalist economy, only the bottom line should matte
Re:Handcuffs (Score:3, Insightful)
Huh? Larry Ellison owns the Oracle corporation! Tech people, when they are really good, they get stock options. Top artists, IMHO, should be treated like that.
I think the situation is more balanced in the classic music market. There are CDs sold at less than $3, by some obscure east Europe orchestras. CDs
Re:Handcuffs (Score:2)
Tech people, when they are really good, incorporate themselves. So long as you work-for-hire, whether as a tech or an artist, you aren't a "superstar." Most techs aren't superstars; neither are most artists.
A Popular artist becomes popular because she's popular, not because she has any merit. Same in the tech world. You need look no further than personal computer operating systems. But I would ask you not to confuse what goes into Milli
Re:Handcuffs (Score:2)
Pay is never based on the amount of work per se. Pay is generally based on the supply of the work. Digging ditches is much more work than writing a hit song, but there are many more ditch diggers available than there are hit song writers.
The free market does do a reasonably go
Re:Handcuffs (Score:2)
Sorry, but this simply doesn't hold water. If you design a shock absorber, someone holds the rights to that design. If I want to use that shock absorber, I have to purchase it from someone. You, as the designer, may not continue t
Re:Handcuffs (Score:2)
Ahhhh, Class Envy. Now I begin to understand...
Why does Jim Carrey command $20 mil per picture? Because his presence in the flick can be the difference between the studio grossing $100 mil or $30 mil. People pay to see him; they don't pay to see the work of the gaffers and the guy who re-compiles the kernal in the CGI render-farm.
People pay to watch the quarterback; they don't come to the stadium to watch the offensive coach map out a strategy.
And (Playing De
Re:Handcuffs (Score:2)
Lookit here, another guy who's never been 10 years old!
It's not the pandering to juvenile tastes that skews the curve, it's the odd fact that teens and pre-teens have such deep access to such "disposable" cash. These Pop Stars are created in the factory because the young audience to whom they appeal are such big consumers. Then they get older, get off the p
Re:Handcuffs (Score:2)
And many artists still fall into that category. But some artists either don't tour or have limited promotional tours because their music doesn't translate over well "live." (Or do the trance/techno/post-modern-post-production guys not count?)
Then, of course, there are the other artists -- authors, movie-makers, for
Re:Handcuffs (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Handcuffs (Score:2)
No, the big problem is: how much control do you want to let content owners have over their work after it has been distributed, in order to maximize its utility to the general so
Re:Handcuffs (Score:2)
More than they have without any kind of DRM, that's for sure. Look, people can argue over whether it should be three years, seven years, eleven years, or a hundred years, but clearly an artist who does not perform -- say, an author, for example -- needs some form of protection against some yahoo scanning his new book and posting it on a website.
Re:Handcuffs (Score:3, Insightful)
The Big Problem has always been: What type of technology will allow us to simultaneously protect a consumer's right to Fair Use while preventing him from illegally distributing the entertainment he has purchased?
Nah, the bigger problem is this: How can that technology, if it gets invented, work in such a fashion that it doesn't criminalize open source software? Right now, every solution the industry comes up with depends on the software writers being 'trusted' by the recording industry. In other words,
and the analog hole? (Score:4, Funny)
heck, play the music loud enough and it does leave your home! buy a bitching video projector and the images leave your home as well
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Re:and the analog hole? (Score:4, Interesting)
What makes you think you'll be allowed to use a projector?
Re:and the analog hole? (Score:3, Interesting)
and what you mean that you can't play dvd's? programs like powerdvd refuse to play?? hasn't happened to me(and you know why there's macromedia chips to supposedly screw up the signal in cards with tv-out to be used with dvd's).
what makes me think that they'll allow use of projector? the fact that if they don't nobody will buy the thing because they wouldn't be able to use their tv's, monitors or ANYTHING to look at the said content(they have to make it possible to see/hear
Re:and the analog hole? (Score:2, Interesting)
PowerDVD 4, which is out NOW, on the market, will not allow MacroVision'd DVDs to be played at all on systems with a gfx card like the Nvidia GeForce2 MX400.
Reason: The GeForce2 doesn't allow the TVout hardware to be disabled by software, so PowerDVD prefers to stop me playing the DVD at all unless it can be sure I'm not outputting it via analogue.
People still buy PowerDVD, so I'l not sure your argument stands. Yes ok, VGA works at the moment, but it's being phased out by digital output
Re:and the analog hole? (Score:2)
I get the GeForce cards specifically for the TV out specifically to play DVD's. I also use the output to record the DVDs to VHS (Fair USE!) to play them on my portable TV in the car.
Of course I'm using Xine/Mplayer which don't care a whit about macrovision, and I'm using some OTHER software just to be able to play the DVD's.
Re:and the analog hole? (Score:2)
No matter what they will try, the rest of the world will be at least 2 steps ahead of them... Unles they simply resort to imprisoning or suing everyone ALA MPAA/RIAA/TNAAA/WHATEVERAA
Re:and the analog hole? (Score:2)
I do remember, but that was when only analog copy was available. Today, it's possible to make an MP3 after just one analog step, and it becomes a digital copy that's DRM-free forever.
Remember the "dongle"? That was something you plugged between your computer and printer to copy-protect software. It was DRM used to protect software about ten years ago. Where are dongles today? Can you find any dongle-protected software now? A
How are they going to enforce that? (Score:3, Interesting)
Of course assuming you are using linux or other open source OS.
Of course they can enforce it (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Of course they can enforce it (Score:2)
The race between OSS and DRM is on. May the most consumer friendly solution win!
Re:How are they going to enforce that? (Score:5, Insightful)
I can't see any way to enforce that. Of course assuming you are using linux or other open source OS.
And what makes you think that Linux or any other open source OS is going to be able to view any media in the future? (At least legally?) Heck, it's already illegal, technically, in the USA to watch DVDs with open source software, even DVDs that you have legally purchased.
-Rob
Re:How are they going to enforce that? (Score:2)
Re:How are they going to enforce that? (Score:2)
You could buy a house for $200,000CDN, furniture/appliances, 2 cars, all new clothing and still have a nice little nest egg left over for later if you moved where I live.
Of course, your polo lessons and country club membership will cost a little bit more, but not everyone considers that a cost of moving!
New technology (Score:5, Funny)
Dang, I used to hand out mp3 cdr's on the street corner. Now I have to resort to sharing on kazaa inside my home.
Any attempts always end up getting cracked. (Score:5, Insightful)
the new 40gig ipod [amazon.com]
Consider what the NSA does... (Score:2, Informative)
1. Never, ever associate the unencrypted data with the encrypted.
2. Keep the encryption and decryption keys secret and change them.
3. Keep the encryption and decryption devices secret.
Even given all that, I'd be codes still get cracked.
So, RIAA and MPAA want to encrypt hundreds of millions if not billions of copies of known data thereby associated encr
Uncrackable isn't the point (Score:3, Insightful)
It's not a question of how, but when. VHS has no encryption, but Macrovision was applied after development for content protection. CDs were a late 70s/early 80s invention, no encrytption at all, with various macrovision-style protection methods applied later. DVDs were a late 80s, early 90s invention, flawed encryption, with limited DRM via improved macrovision.
It's clear
I love the wording on these. (Score:5, Insightful)
They always word these things like they're *granting* new rights instead of taking them away. I don't know whether to be amused at the balls of the PR makers or dismayed at the fact that there are twits who will read a press release like that and think "Oh goody, I've been wanting to do that."
Re:I love the wording on these. (Score:2)
old computers (Score:4, Informative)
I really hope that some new company (from China, maybe?) will come up with new brands of processors without the DRM stuff. but then probably the US government will make them illegal in the country
Digital Content Protection (Score:2, Insightful)
-StarMaven
Re:Digital Content Protection (Score:3, Insightful)
Defeating the Dubbers (Score:2)
Re:If the DRM system looks for a watermark (Score:3, Informative)
Anyway I read the article. It's quite clear this the the Microsoft Media PC. It's no more a general use PC than an X Box is. It's a cable subscription box that plays rental and purchase p
The problem with inaudibility (Score:2)
A watermark would be a auditorialy invisible signal in the content data that encodes a copy protection code or DRM code.
If it can't be heard, a good lossy audio encoder will remove it. If it can be heard, audiophiles will female dog about it to no end.
If the DRM system looks for a watermark in the content data (as opposed to a special metadata code) and permits/prohibits playing, copying, saving, etc. then dubbers are defeated.
And watch how mad a father can get when his shiny new camcorder refuses
Re:Digital Content Protection (Score:5, Informative)
sheesh, someone tells you to plug something into your soundcard and it gets a plus 4 insightful? whilst i'm here, anyone want to mod me up if i tell you how to unplug your keybo....
Re:record in mono (Score:2)
bollocks, again (Score:2)
This is crap, mr genius. Motherboards, hard disks etc then yes, eventually and with some caveats. Line out, no. Until they bolt the headphones to your ears, if you can hear it then you can take an analogue copy.
Even with a closed system, you can hold a mic up to a loudspeaker. A headphone is a cone that vibrates when you apply a voltage, it's
Re:Digital Content Protection (Score:2)
Is it bad? (Score:2, Insightful)
What to me is *much* worse, is when these DRM techniques disable me (honest linux user, strictly using Free software), to do things MS users can. I might *want* to pay for a film/song, but if the technology disables me from vieuwing it, I'll have to become a criminal.
Fortunaltely, the requirements, as stated in the
Content Comp
Re:Is it bad? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Is it bad? (Score:2)
Can We Say Fritz Chip? (Score:3, Insightful)
When are they going to learn? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:When are they going to learn? (Score:2)
However, is it possible to open an IC and read what is stored in it's flash (or whatever) memory? Or to put it other way, is it possible to take a smart card (eg a phone SIM card) and read what's written there without having the PIN?
I mean is it physically possible with our current technology?
Can NSA or IBM labs or a university labs or a garage geek do it?
How much does it cost to do it?
If it's not possible, then it's essent
A simple rule about copying music: (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:A simple rule about copying music: (Score:2)
Audience: BOO!
Kang: Okay... Free music for none!
Audience: BOO!
Kang: Hmmnn... Free music for some, cochlear implants for others!
Audience: YAAY!!!
Again: Nice try. (Score:4, Insightful)
If Intel should start getting truly pesky to customers with TCPA, this new gadget and anything else, AMD, VIA, Motorola and any other Vendor will rejoyce and push out CPUs and Architecture variants that don't have this crap.
Why don't Corporations just go back to good ol' quality products for a fair price to make money? That used to be a reliable way to do it after all.
Sanely priced CDs with mp3s and oggs and mpeg videos included, along with interessting booklets should do magic to a declining market. But I guess they just want to sell crap for to much money and will use law enforcement to emphasis that and in the end really piss their customers of.
Re:Again: Nice try. (Score:2)
Sanely priced CDs with mp3s and oggs and mpeg videos included, along with interessting booklets should do magic to a declining market. But I guess they just want to sell crap for to much money and will use law enforcement to emphasis that and in the end really piss their customers of.
Right on, man. The cd itself doesn't cost a dime to these labels, and I would
Re:Again: Nice try. (Score:3, Insightful)
That's why I don't buy PhotoShop either. It's grossly overpriced, just like pop music.
six months (Score:3, Insightful)
I'll wait six months until somebody outside US publishes something to crack this bullshit!
Just like CSS!
When will they learn that any kind of digital copy protection will ALWAYS be cracked in a few monthes? Don't they have TI advisors?
Define "home." (Score:4, Insightful)
This reminds me of the crisis over defining "copy" that underlies all the legal arguments over file sharing. The fact is, these terms have long been de-stabilized. The advent of electronic media that began at the turn of the century created a whole new level of complexity in language that text based laws simply cannot encompass.
Just imagine the use of the term "home" in a filesystem. Where is home? Does that mean in relation to root? Which root? Or is it the user home? Does that include the virtual network or locally? Local meaning active or including backups?
Glazing over these things as if they didn't exist simply because a lot of people don't want to face it is not looking at the reality we live in today.
Excellent. (Score:4, Insightful)
Revocation question (Score:5, Insightful)
The obvious concern here is that the devices will be sold under some sort of license agreement that will permit unspecified others to figuratively fry your hardware if they suspect it's compromised (or are otherwise displeased with you). I imagine that one's recourse as a consumer (remember: we're "consumers" and not "citizens" here!) will be quite limited. Sigh.
Re:Revocation question (Score:2)
Not only will there now be physical connection problems, but errant software which (for whatever reason) denys access to content you fully and rightfully own.
Just remember... the people who are "giving" us all these great new abilities are the same ones that "gave" us those wonderful warnings and advertisments that can't be skipped on the DVD player.
Meanwhile Windowsupdate is offering me DRM too (Score:5, Interesting)
What does it do?
The Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Rights Management (RM) client is required for your computer to run applications that provide functionality based on Windows RM technologies. Installing this client places software on your computer that allows RM-aware applications to work with Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) to provide licenses for publishing and consuming RM-protected information.
Now what interests me is, who is going to be the first software company to embrace this? Probably the next version of Media Player.
It's been a while since I read the GPL. (Score:2)
Administered by a guy called Mr Burns? (Score:2)
No thanks, I don't need cripple-ware (Score:5, Insightful)
Because you should have to pay twice if you want to play the music on a portable mp3 player.
And of course, no open source mp3 software, because I could compile it with -DNO_DRM.
Well, Sony, guess what? Having my music conveniently on my PC and on my mp3 portableplayer is what motivates me to buy the music in the first place.
And guess what? I do respect copyright; I won't even burn a CD for close friends, or rip their CDs -- despite the 32 GB of free space on my portable.
And I'll continue to respect your copyright: I just won't buy your cripple-ware.
I can find plenty of great music on old LPs, on real (Phillips-Sony Red Book Standard), from emusic.com, and from independent labels.
Let me repeat: I don't want your cripple-ware. It does me no good since it won't play on the hardware I control (it only plays on hardware I buy and you control). So it will do you no good -- I won't exchange my money for it.
The more new releases you distribute exclusively as cripple-ware, the more alternatives will be produced. And that's what I'll be buying.
Re:No thanks, I don't need cripple-ware (Score:2)
Just out of curiosity, which copyright do you 'respect'? The length of copyright that was in the US 100 years ago, the one 60 years ago, the one 40 years ago, the one 6 years ago, or the one today?
Re:No thanks, I don't need cripple-ware (Score:2)
It's a good point you implicitly make: why should we respect copyright if, as the trend suggests, it will be extended every time Disney needs it to keep Mickey Mouse in chains.
One the one hand, you could certainbly make a case that copyright should be perpetual: why should mere passges of years make my unique
Re:No thanks, I don't need cripple-ware (Score:2)
Fewer and fewer friends everyday. I prefer to think I'm distilling my friendships to the pure essence, but it's more likely I'm just obnoxious and disliked.
But it's not a matter of being a "corporate whore", it's a matter of self-respect: I entered into an agreement (explicitly so, with emusic.com, impl
Typical /. Hipocrisy (Score:3, Insightful)
You don't want to be called a thief for running Linux? You don't want to be known as some script-kiddie hacker for using OSS? Well here is a good hint...stop advocating cracking and stealing music and software. You paid for it and it is yours to use, but, don't share it with the rest of the world.
Hypocrisy is found here in the more pure form I have ever seen outside of Hollywood.
Re:Typical /. Hipocrisy (Score:2, Interesting)
Ironicly the software distribution format they settled on was the cd.
Re:Typical /. Hipocrisy (Score:2)
It's a natural response to the immature attitude of putting copy-protection everywhere. Or would you say treating your customers as outlaws is a "mature" attitude?
You paid for it and it is yours to use
You bet! And I will keep it mine! I paid for it, it's mine, they will not take it back!
Re:Typical /. Hipocrisy (Score:5, Insightful)
The problem is that copy protection has failed every time. From the first attempts from 8bit game producers over hardware dongles and broken audio-"CD"s, nothing has ever really prevented illegal distribution of media and software. But each new attempt has made life worse for the honest paying customer. Currently, I can't play a lot of my "CD"s in my computer or car stereo, because the music industry is deliberatly breaking standards - I could still grab it from Kazaa, of course, and use it without any hassle. What will those DRM-style things bring - will I be able to make a backup of my legally purchased files if I get a new computer or hard drive? Will I be able to use them if I chose to use an operating system the DRM software providers might never have heard of, or simply don't consider big enough a market?
I still think that on the long run it's a better idea to offer your customers good products at a fair price rather than treating them as a bunch of worthless criminals.
Re: It's Not Hipocrisy, It's Pissed... (Score:2)
The RIAA responded with "No way! You will only like the songs that we tell you to like and you will only buy them they way we tell you to buy them."
Of course that pissed the users off at the already pissed off RIAA, and we all know what happens when two very pissed off entities meet each other in a dark alley.
All I can say is may the most powerful pissed off entity prevail.
Re:Typical /. Hipocrisy (Score:3, Interesting)
Hmmm.... (Score:2)
They can make all the DRM they want (Score:3, Insightful)
if this makes me a criminal then so be it, I'll be an underground criminal but at least I'll be DRM free.
My Freevo does things that no TiVO can (watch your shows on the subway with your laptop... oh wait you cant without ahack that makes making a freevo box look easy) and I'll always be able to create DRM free mp3's no matter what they try.
and I know that I'm not the only one that does not want DRM here nor some damned companie's fingers in what I do in my home.
Sad (Score:2)
He who would sacrifice a little bit of liberty to suck on the rancid teat of hollywood blockbusters deserves neither.
I have the solution (Score:3, Interesting)
DON'T BUY THEM.
That'll shut them up fairly quick.
Tom
Re:I have the solution (Score:4, Insightful)
Soooo...lemme get this straight (Score:3, Interesting)
Salesperson: *looks at DVD* oh, that's one of those new DRM protected dvd's.
Middle aged pundit: Drmwhazit?
Salesperson: It's a security measure to keep people from copying the DVD.
Middle aged pundit: Ok, well why won't it play on the player then?
Salesperson: Becuase you have to have a DRM enabled DVD player to run it.
Middle aged pundit: *runs through mind, looks over at shelf, sees an expensive $300 player for the DVD, becomes slightly irritated* Can I get a refund then?
Salesperson: Sorry, it's store policy not to give refunds on CD's or DVD's.
Middle aged pundit: Why?
Salesperson: Because a lot of people copy them and try to return them. If we allowed for refunds we'd go out of buisness.
Middle aged pundit: *now very irritated* But I didn't copy this, hell, it has copy protection on it! I want my money back.
Salesperson: Sorry, can't do it.
Middle aged pundit: Ok then. *runs off to look at the non-drm'd dvd section or out of the store very angry to return and look at the non-drm's dvd section*.
This is how DRM is going to effect most people. The youngin's and technically adept are going to know about it and not even get caught up in that. Plus, with their system it looks like it needs an internet connection which is even more expensive.
Only when it's cheap will it catch on. Remember that folks.
Intel's going to have to put some money investment into a fritz chip. Unless they are getting some profit out of this it ain't gonna happen. The whole idea for the corperations is to gouge people on the media they by and if that fails then the entire scheme will fail.
Way too late (Score:2)
Why do they have such a hard time understanding that?
Why? (Score:2, Insightful)
Dear Big Business (Score:4, Informative)
Regards,
Your customers.
Here was my first thought (Score:4, Interesting)
The DTCP specification, embodied in home networks, would permit consumers to play downloaded music or movies on any PC or digital device in the home. However, the downloaded material can't be transmitted outside the home or copied
Now what embodies a "home" network as opposed to an "outside" network? Private IPs. Almost all the people I know with broadband and multiple computers are using some kind of NAT. Think how easy it would be to put a chip in a consumer electronic device that sniffed out the IPs of files as they come in or out. Anything with 192.168.x.x is allowed and anything else is denied.
Now, I'm sure the hard core networking guys could use PPTP or something to "extend" their home network around the world but for 99% of the people out there, they already can't figure out how to share files over NAT (try listening to all the complaints about DCC not working in any IRC filesharing channel) so it's doubtful that they would know how to bypass this either.
And because it's the a chip in the electronic device that controls the input/output you couldn't just write a program that would be NAT aware like the modern P2P sharing programs. You'd essentially have to modchip all your devices, which could end up being a lot more trouble than its worth.
So that's my theory on how it'll work.
-JoeShmoe
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Trusted Computing for anti-virus NOT for DRM!!! (Score:3, Informative)
I've read the TCPA specs and it's not a bad idea in a commercial & some home environments as long as you can turn it off so you can develop code or run someone elses' if you choose to (as opposed to sneak-ware like Gator). I have two computers at work & wouldn't mind if the one running email were "locked down" to keep corporate IS from losing their minds for every MSBlaster/Fizzer/MSwormoftheweek as long as they leave my "programming" box alone (where's the checkbox for USB compliance suite [usb.org] on their audit checklist???).
At home, it would be an advantage to have two copies of Windows installed- one that lets me play & one that I run video editing on & only runs trusted code.
By mixing DRM in, Intel, Microsoft, h-p & others are guaranteeing that
1) there will be strong opposition to the tech in the form of boycotts (see the anti-RFID flak) & cracks
2) the tech will be weakened to serve its new DRM masters by complexity not needed for simple rogue code protection
Re:That's it. (Score:5, Informative)
That won't make much difference [slashdot.org].
In the worst case, I'm moving to China to buy a Chiniese PC. Runs linux.
Yeah, because China is such a hotbed for freedom...until you do something the government doesn't like. Oh, and there's nothing stopping them from putting DRM into Linux.
Re:That's it. (Score:3, Insightful)
Of course, there's a little clause in the GPL about modifying and redistributing the software...
Re:That's it. (Score:2)
Let them put DRM into Linux. That would be great!
Of course, there's a little clause in the GPL about modifying and redistributing the software...
You fail to understand how technologies such as TCPA and Palladium (or whatever they're calling it now) are going to work. The availability of the source code would change nothing. The key to implementing DRM is that the security chip on the motherboard would possess a private key not obtainable by the end user, and the corresponding public key would be sig
Re:That's it. (Score:2)
Which there will be. Aren't the Windoze people fond of reminding us that Linux isn't completely secure too?
The difference with DRM is that they won't be able to patch.
Re:That's it. (Score:2)
Both of your replies are potentially ways to get around DRM. However, I still don't see how DRM on Linux, to which they would have to publish the source code, gets us that much.
Lab assignment. (Score:2)
Extra credit will be given to anyone who can open the chip and read the key in under ten minutes.
Please remember that it is illegal to publish this number online.
Re:Sony? (Score:2)