Stop Microsoft
Miscellaneous => Intellectual Property & Law => Topic started by: Lead Head on 16 February 2006, 21:43
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http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/02/15/trusted_computing_extended_to_hard_drives/ (http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/02/15/trusted_computing_extended_to_hard_drives/)
San Jose (CA) - As part of a series of announcements made this week at the annual RSA security conference, the Trusted Computing Group announced it will be publishing a specification that extends the reach of devices covered by the so-called Trusted Platform to the realm of the hard disk drive. With the advent of TCG's Storage Work Group's implementation of the Trusted Platform Module version 1.2, comes at least the technical possibility that a fixed, single industry standard could emerge for digital rights management at the storage device level.
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This is going WAY over board IMHO.
Discuss.
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Wait a minute ... so this is saying that in the near future all harddrives will have DRMs built into them as a part of the firmware ? ... Looks like I'll have to start looking to buy my last computer ... the last free HDD at least ... maybe I'll buy all the free HDDs now and sell em later for millions each ... :) ... assuming the government starts forbidding the use of free HDDs. Like prohibition ...
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Maybe soon, they'll come out with DRM pencils and DRM paper. Assholes.
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This is getting scary...
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I agree.
On another note
DRM pens could actually be possible. A computer chip placed inside the pen, and sesnors track how the roller-ball is moving and if it sees you writing down copytighted stuff it could lock the ball from moving...
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Heh, I knew that spending $1.99 on a bamboo ink pen would pay off someday. Now I just have to find a recipe for ink.
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I like fountain pens more than ballpoints ... there's more friction, making it easier to write nicely ... for me at least
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I like fountain pens more than ballpoints ... there's more friction, making it easier to write nicely ... for me at least
You mean less friction, don't you? I like fountain pens too. They glide.
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When i think about all the RIAA, MS and other shit on this planet i end up thinking one thing: The end is near, and there might be a war too
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E-War I?
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E-War I?
I think this is one of those plans that will collapse on itself (just like several of y projects, actually)
People are going to get so pissed off at this. Some people actually OWN the music they play (like me) and will get supremely pissed at having something try to keep the legal copyrighted stuff off.
Besides, how will it work? Hook up to the 'net and download a database of every copyrighted thing? Since it will have to store some data on the "illegal" files, someone will find a crack to actually have that software download all the "illegal files". And for those who can, just unplug the modem and use the machine for playing games, and get into the printing industry. :rolleyes:
However, if it goes through, I will personally torch every electronics store within 5 miles that sels the shit.
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When i think about all the RIAA, MS and other shit on this planet i end up thinking one thing: The end is near, and there might be a war too
It's not the end ... but that's what they want you to think. Really it's just the beginning of a new era ... a shitty one as usual
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Really it's just the beginning of a new era ... a shitty one as usual
Unless you're willing to stand up and shout and fight and make a difference - then it could be a nice and snuggly era.
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Computers are going backwards. Play movies in higher quality, then get sued for playing movies in high quality. Copy movies to a hdd, then get sued for piracy. Open Source is going to be illigal soon (i wouldnt doubt it) because it hurts M$'s earnings by like a billion a year, which is really not much compared to what the slags make (:D had to say that).
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64-bit computing and SSE2/3 are more to be feared. If new copyright material is produced in high quality encrypted 64-bit only with a copyprotect flag (no IDE redirect) enforced on the mobo by firmware, then you might not even be able to play it on 32-bit computers, much less crack and copy it.
Pirates will have to have nice camcorders to film what they want to pass around.
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64-bit computing and SSE2/3 are more to be feared. If new copyright material is produced in high quality encrypted 64-bit only with a copyprotect flag (no IDE redirect) enforced on the mobo by firmware, then you might no even be able to play it on 32-bit computers, much less crack and copy it.
Pirates will have to have nice camcorders to film what they want to pass around.
And that's what makes this so stupid - pirates WILL film stuff and pass it around.
Goddamm techno-capitalists. All they want is money.
"We've sold everyone a TV and a car and a record player - what can we sell them now? Oh, hey, a personal computer, I bet lots of people will buy those."
And thus was the market flooded with consumer electronics for the manipulation of data.
"Gosh, now everyone has a computer, what else can we sell them? How about a cd player and a dvd player?"
And thus was the market flooded with consumer electronics for the playback of digital media.
"Gosh, now everyone has a computer and a cd player and a dvd player, what are we gonna sell them now? Better think of something fast, or we're going to have to suspend corporate bonus-bonuses this week. Well, I guess we could sell everyone a cd burner and a dvd burner, and cd/dvd copying software."
And thus was the market flooded with the tools required to copy/duplicate digital media.
"Well, that's about it, there really isn't anything more we can sell these people without putting ourselves out of business. Wait, I've got it! We'll sue the shit out of everyone on the planet, and get our money back. Brilliant!"
And thus were the courts and police blotters flooded with accusations of piracy and theft against people who simply wanted to try out their new digital media copiers.
to be continued...
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When i think about all the RIAA, MS and other shit on this planet i end up thinking one thing: The end is near, and there might be a war too
What evil asshats should go against the wall when the revolution comes?
My votes:
MS
RIAA
MPAA
SCOG
SONY
Fritz Hollings
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Lexmark
The Government (yup all of 'em)
Lawyers
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Pirates will have to have nice camcorders to film what they want to pass around.
No camcorders required all you need to do is write a program to play the film and re-encode each frame and sound byte - it's already possible.
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You could probably just use mencode or transcode to do it ... you can even capture streams ... although it's probably illegal to do so
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But how is it being illegal goning to stop people?
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Well ... of course it's not ... only if large numbers of people get caught and fined or sent to prison ... somehow I feel that if that happened the prison system would not be able to handle it. Basically the prison system is overloaded as is, in some states they release people with minor offenses from jail to make room for those who commit more serious crimes.
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Don't you do electronic tagging over in the US?
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Well ... of course it's not ... only if large numbers of people get caught and fined or sent to prison ... somehow I feel that if that happened the prison system would not be able to handle it. Basically the prison system is overloaded as is, in some states they release people with minor offenses from jail to make room for those who commit more serious crimes.
Yes, but may I point out that more and more, the US government is for sale to people with $$?
Already, there are laws on the books for taking a video camera into a movie theatre. These have harsher jail terms than for most violent crimes. No, I'm not kidding. Beat the shit out of someone, and you will get out of jail faster than if you get caught with a video camera in a movie house.
That is, if they bother to prosecute the violent perp in the first place. From my experiences, I can tell you that that the police probably won't even bother to arrest the perp, even if they have witnesses and know exactly where he is (unless he puts his victim in the hospital). Cops just don't care... but OMFG pirating a movie!!!! You evil son of a bitch!
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That's true, here in the UK you can get 10 years for pirating a film which is similar sentence to child abuse and a lesser sentence than being found with child porn on your PC. :rolleyes:
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That's true, here in the UK you can get 10 years for pirating a film which is similar sentence to child abuse and a lesser sentence than being found with child porn on your PC. :rolleyes:
Holy shit ... that's definitely not a good sign :eek: ... dammit we gotta do something ... but what ?
One very radical idea that just popped into my head is to either boycott all companies acusing people of "piracy".
Or, pirate the shit out of everything from these companies until the owners are homeless, literally !
Note: These require massive support from the public in order to have any effect whatsoever
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That's true, here in the UK you can get 10 years for pirating a film which is similar sentence to child abuse and a lesser sentence than being found with child porn on your PC. :rolleyes:
I didn't know that the UK had the same problem, but it makes perfect sense.
Children have no money. How can they buy off legislators to get laws that will properly protect them from sexual predators?
The movie and music industry has lots of money. They are, and will continue to buy laws to protect their business interests. Moreover, they are and will continue to buy legislation to expand their business interests and control over content beyond copyright law, using "piracy" as an excuse (such as the proposed "analog-hole" legislation).
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Holy shit ... that's definitely not a good sign :eek: ... dammit we gotta do something ... but what ?
One very radical idea that just popped into my head is to either boycott all companies acusing people of "piracy".
Or, pirate the shit out of everything from these companies until the owners are homeless, literally !
Note: These require massive support from the public in order to have any effect whatsoever
I have been working on this for the past 6 years :P
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Yes, but may I point out that more and more, the US government is for sale to people with $$?
Already, there are laws on the books for taking a video camera into a movie theatre. These have harsher jail terms than for most violent crimes. No, I'm not kidding. Beat the shit out of someone, and you will get out of jail faster than if you get caught with a video camera in a movie house.
That is, if they bother to prosecute the violent perp in the first place. From my experiences, I can tell you that that the police probably won't even bother to arrest the perp, even if they have witnesses and know exactly where he is (unless he puts his victim in the hospital). Cops just don't care... but OMFG pirating a movie!!!! You evil son of a bitch!
It just gets funnier when you figure in that some murderers and rapists get out faster than someone who tries to record a movie in a theater.
I predict the MPAA and RIAA will attempt to have piracy reclassified as a terrorist crime by the end of the year. Why is it that I can seriously see someone being locked up in Guantanamo Bay with terrorism suspects and denied access to a lawyer for ten years before ever seeing the inside of a courtroom?