[AktiviX-discuss] Digital Rights Management...?

[Alan Dawson]

Quoting Dan <dan at aktivix.org>:


> "But Hollywood studios won't do a deal with him because they are worried 
> about piracy. They want a platform with rock-solid 'digital rights 
> management' (DRM) built in. And it just so happens that Intel has been 
> moving technical mountains to build strong DRM into its processor 
> architecture, whereas IBM doesn't see it as a priority."
> 
> Logically, I can't see how that would be possible....?
> 

see ...
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2002/jul02/07-01palladium.mspx
http://www.againsttcpa.com/
https://www.trustedcomputinggroup.org/home


and some more..
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/drm/default.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/security/news/ngscb.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/articles/drmarchitecture.aspx

You wll have seen the adverts in the press from microsoft touting the DRM  (
digital right management ) features in the latest versions of Office and
Exchange. ( the "you just sent the staff payroll figures to all users" ads with
the dinosaur heads on actors )

This is how these technologies are being sold to business.  ... Of course if you
are a media business and you want to control how your content is redistributed
it is also of interest!

This also shows the limits on opensource movement to change the real economic
relationships in society... 

Yes we can create software in our bedrooms and basements... but we cannot create
micropocessors.

eg.. I may be able to code a mediaplayer for mpeg2015 movies... but if the
software needs to talk to a hardware chip that downloads a one time key from
sky.com....  which is why the old media names are interested in hardware drm
being emebedded into microprocessors. 

AED
-- 
"If you make decisions about software -- or anything -- based solely on
short-term cost and benefit, someone with a longer view can easily
manoeuver you into a trap from which it is hard to escape."