Against TCPA!! (PLEASE READ)

logicnerd411

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I AM SO MAD!!!!!

Against TCPA

To sum it up, TCPA is a chip on your motherboard that will control your computer.

What does TCPA / Palladium do, in ordinary English?

It provides a computing platform on which you can't tamper with the applications, and where these applications can communicate securely with the vendor. The obvious application is digital rights management (DRM): Disney will be able to sell you DVDs that will decrypt and run on a Palladium platform, but which you won't be able to copy. The music industry will be able to sell you music downloads that you won't be able to swap. They will be able to sell you CDs that you'll only be able to play three times, or only on your birthday. All sorts of new marketing possibilities will open up.

TCPA / Palladium will also make it much harder for you to run unlicensed software. Pirate software can be detected and deleted remotely. It will also make it easier for people to rent software rather than buying it; and if you stop paying the rent, then not only does the software stop working but so may the files it created. For years, Bill Gates has dreamed of finding a way to make the Chinese pay for software: Palladium could be the answer to his prayer.

There are many other possibilities. Governments will be able to arrange things so that all Word documents created on civil servants' PCs are `born classified' and can't be leaked electronically to journalists. Auction sites might insist that you use trusted proxy software for bidding, so that you can't bid tactically at the auction. Cheating at computer games could be made more difficult.

There is a downside too. There will be remote censorship: the mechanisms designed to delete pirated music under remote control may be used to delete documents that a court (or a software company) has decided are offensive - this could be anything from pornography to writings that criticise political leaders. Software companies can also make it harder for you to switch to their competitors' products; for example, Word could encrypt all your documents using keys that only Microsoft products have access to; this would mean that you could only read them using Microsoft products, not with any competing word processor.

So a `Trusted Computer' is one that can break my security?

Now you've got it.

CPF UNITE AGAINST TCPA!!!

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-Dan
 

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LED-FX

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Hmmmm remember the Clipper encryption chip , with a back door for the feds , started the "Big Brother Inside" campaign, thought not , Clipper chip meet dustbin of history your new home.

Now lets look who is promoting this new secure enviroment, Mickey..,er, Microsoft, vendor of bug ridden security sieves, right up to server level software, anyone for a Slammer.....

Also manufacturer of the X-Box console on to revison 4? and seems to take on average about a month for the security to get cracked to remove region coding allow backups etc and that`s hardware encryption.

Chanves of Big Bill and Intel getting something that sticks and works for longer than 5 minutes is Zero. Its soothing sounds made my the vendors to try and make it look like they have answers to piracy and world market encoding issues. They may have for about 4 minutes 59........

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this chip sounds like agood idea.
 

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tkl said:
this chip sounds like agood idea.

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How so? PLease read the FAQ on the site.
 

Anarchocap

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LED-FX said:
Chanves of Big Bill and Intel getting something that sticks and works for longer than 5 minutes is Zero. Its soothing sounds made my the vendors to try and make it look like they have answers to piracy and world market encoding issues. They may have for about 4 minutes 59........


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You guys need to wake up! Intel is against government legislation that will mandate how OEMs will be forced to add digital rights management, through the record and movie industry legislation moving through congress right now.

This is an effort to try and find something voluntary to head off the government's meddling in the issue.

If you guys think switching to Linux and AMD are going to solve your problems, you are dead wrong. If the legislation is passed, there will be nowhere to run.

Intel has asked that its employees campaign against the legislation the anti-TCPA site mentions.
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Intel joins alliance opposing government technology mandates
Posted January 23, 2003; WW04
By Lori A. Nolin, Worldwide Employee Communications, and Intel Government Affairs
Intel has joined a broad-based alliance of consumer groups, think tanks, taxpayer organizations, and businesses to oppose government-designed and mandated technology aimed at solving the problem of digital piracy.

The Alliance for Digital Progress (ADP) will oppose efforts by Hollywood to persuade the government to design anti-copying technology and require all digital devices to be built using that technology.

The more than 20 members of ADP, including Intel, strongly support the protection of digital content—movies, music, software, and books. But they also believe that the best way to fight piracy is through private-sector collaboration.

The group plans a vigorous national campaign in the United States to prevent the adoption of mandates through legislation or regulation. The Alliance will reach out to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, administration officials, and the public to communicate the threat government-designed technology mandates pose to consumers and businesses alike.

Doug Comer, Intel Government Affairs, says Intel and ADP advocate the following principles of digital progress:

Excellence--ADP members encourage the continued development of cutting-edge, private sector-developed technologies to protect digital content and meet the demands of the marketplace.
Education--ADP seeks to work with all interested parties to educate consumers about their responsibilities and the harm piracy causes innovators, copyright owners, consumers, and the economy.
Enforcement--ADP believes the most effective role of government is to ensure adherence to existing laws and treaties against piracy around the world.
Enjoyment--ADP supports the creation of products and services that address the legitimate expectations of consumers for the use of all forms of technology and commercial content to enrich and improve their lives.
Economic growth--ADP embraces both technologies and innovative business models that foster the widespread, legal distribution of high-quality, digital content. These are the keys to promoting e-commerce and economic growth in the digital age.
Last year Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC), introduced the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, a bill that would have the government define and mandate copy protection technology within PCs and all digital devices capable of creating a copy of any copyrighted work. As reported by Circuit News, Intel took a leadership role in mobilizing industry opposition to the Hollings Bill in 2002.

In addition to Intel, members of the new alliance include Microsoft, Cisco Systems, and Digitalconsumer.org.


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logicnerd411

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UnanimousConsent said:
If you guys think switching to Linux and AMD are going to solve your problems, you are dead wrong. If the legislation is passed, there will be nowhere to run.


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Charles Bradshaw

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DRM is more Divine Rights Management and the Patent is owned by Microsoft. The Divine Right of Microsoft to destroy all Competition, current and any wannabe future Threat to Microsoft's Scheme of Total Global Domination. MS has been using Disney as its Attack Dog in Congress to get DRM Mandated by Law.

This would destroy Linux, as is intended by Microsoft, contrary to anything they might say in public (or court). If you had read the Halloween Papers (genuine leaked MS Board documents), then you would know that MS will stop at nothing to destroy Linux. The primary reason, is that Linux will not pay Royalties to Microsoft, and Microsoft knows this. It took them long enough to figure out how to destroy Linux, since their customary methods couldn't be used (no single company to destroy).

Don't believe for a second that Linux or any other OS will install on a DRM mobo, even if it is supposedly disabled.

If all of the Legal Mandates get passed, even home built computers will be outlawed. (If you can't get it in one law, then you do it bit by bit).

If all this happens, then I will leave the internet permanently, and use what I have, offline, until the hardware dies. Then no computer, forever after.
 

logicnerd411

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Open source is gone.

Freeware is gone.

Competition of Microsoft is gone.

Freedom is gone.

FIGHT AGAINST TCPA!
 

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Not yet Dan.

What I meant when I said install Linux was that everything (Nearly) is open source, aka "Free"[b/].

Didn't think of the fact that this would kill Linux. So yeah, I guess this is a bigger problem then I thought. I'm still not loosing sleep over it.


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