Digitial Rights

[Nidalap]

You all may want to take a look at this link:

<http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Erja14/tcpa-faq.html>http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Erja14/tcpa-faq.html


and then this site:

<http://www.trustedcomputing.org/tcpaasp4/index.asp>http://www.trustedcomputing.org/tcpaasp4/index.asp

its a pretty serious intrusion if you ask me. please send an email with your opinions so as i know you read it.

[EighteenthVoid]

F*ck a whole lot of that sh*t

If this is the future of our OS's, then i'm sticking with Win98.

And no wonder why my windowsupdate has been endlessly bugging me about that new windows media player 7 security update...
I also thought it was a little fishy, considering I don't even have media player 7.

[Ostaf]

Quote:

The most charitable view of TCPA is put forward by a Microsoft researcher: there are some applications in which you want to constrain the user's actions. For example, you want to stop people fiddling with the odometer on a car before they sell it. Similarly, if you want to do DRM on a PC then you need to treat the user as the enemy.

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Fiddling with the odometer won't make the car run faster or more efficiently. If this goes through, it would be more like you would have to go to a mechanic everytime you wanted to put more oil in the car.

[Nidalap]

Ah, but you see, why should we go to a mechanic every time we want to put oil in our car, and pay 100 dollars to do it. Personaly, I like to do things myself, cheaper in the long run, and you know if it was done right.

[Ostaf]

That was exactly my point.