DRM my ass
Posted on May 29, 2005
Well, well, well, it looks like my PC days are over. Intel, AMD and probably other x86 vendors are adding DRM to their chipsets.
And I bet that Apple will have something like that too. Why I think that it’s that bad?
A good example of DRM abuse is Adobe’s release of a public domain work, Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland”, with DRM controls asserting that “this book cannot be read aloud”. And that’s for public domain content! Imagine what kind of power they have over their own content.
Additionally, AMD also features what Intel calls “IDE redirection”…allow administrators to remotely enable, disable or format or configure individual drives and reload operating systems and software from remote locations, again independent of operating systems.
This trusted computing creates the prospect of a computer system which cannot be trusted by its owner, but rather its behavior can be remotely manipulated at any time, regardless of the legal merits of such manipulation.
No, I don’t want this shit.
My next workstation will probably from SUN Microsystems, they are not as expensive now as they used to be.
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