zeveck
@rsasecurity.com
| reply to Skippy25
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. |
