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Skippy25
join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO
| Re: So what's the issue? So you come here anonymous and call me a troll and state I support DRM because I question the usefulness of this? You may want to examine who is the troll here my little panzy friend.
Regardless of anything you will always have your people that think everything is free for the taking regardless of who "suffers".
Content providers, regardless of what they provide (movies, music, software, video) have every right to set limitations on the use of THEIR content. If Intel and most likely eventually AMD want to help make things more secure with hardware based protection, that is their choice. You and I may not like it and we can decide with our checkbooks, but still it is their choice as it is THEIR material.
Do I support DRM? I truely dont know enough about it to say yes or no and probably wont take the time to learn it. However, what I do fully support is my right to fully restrict the distribution of something that I create. If DRM provides me that right in a better way then before then great, I welcome the improvement. | |
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zeveck
@rsasecurity.com
| Re: So what's the issue? To be fair, Y2K was a not a hoax by any stretch of the imagination. Companies poured BILLIONS of dollars into it such that in every industry where it was going to be a major problem (such as air traffic control, central banking, government weapons control) had the problem mostly fixed well in advance. The media got carried away with stories about it exending to everyday computer usage, but...
If DRM provides me that right in a better way then before then great, I welcome the improvement.
You do not have that right. If you make something and sell it you do not have the right to tell the person what they can do with it after the buy it aside from their ability to redistribute it and so forth. DRM is INCREDIBLY overrestrictive because it is too complicated to make technologies that can make judgement calls, so it always rounds your rights down to the nearest easily programable denominator.
This is not something that it is okay to "wait and see on"...because by the time people realize it's a problem it will be YEARS too late to do anything about it. If Intel does this and OSes are made to require and AMD is forced into it and so forth it isn't like they're going to go back and pull it...despite the protest...because you'd be talking countless billions in losses. | |
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