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Felten: Hollywood designing our computers
Ed Felten has posted some
excerpts from a Microsoft white paper (available as a
2MB Word-format document) on "content protection" for Windows systems.
It shows that the entertainment industry is now truly driving the design of
our hardware and Microsoft's software. For example, before a new cipher
for content encryption will be implemented: "The evidence must be
presented to Hollywood and other content owners, and they must agree that
it provides the required level of security. Written proof from at least
three of the major Hollywood studios is required." The document as
a whole is a worthwhile read - it shows the extent to which the industry is
willing to go to protect our computers from their owners.
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Felten: Hollywood designing our computers Posted Aug 10, 2005 15:24 UTC (Wed) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link] Hopefully, not much time will be lost identifying encrypted crap, so we can ignore it as readily as the clear crap.Obfuscating and slapping a fat price tag on crap does not its nature change.
DRM is self-defeating Posted Aug 10, 2005 16:52 UTC (Wed) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link] DRM is just a fence, and fences work both ways. Hollywood has been gradually painting itself into a smaller and smaller corner of the entertainment industry, quality-wise if not quantity-wise, and erecting an actual fence around their "property" will just accelerate the process.
Go DRM! Keep that crap away from me.
Felten: Hollywood designing our computers Posted Aug 10, 2005 22:03 UTC (Wed) by landley (guest, #6789) [Link] My local Blockbuster serves the University of Texas at Austin, and it nowhas an entire aisle devoted to DVD versions of television programs, and another aisle devoted to anime. The vast majority of the movies they have are at least 5 years old. The floor space devoted to new movie releases is _tiny_; far less than 10% of their DVD floor space (and that's not counting the space devoted to video game rentals). People around here seem every bit as enthused about new Battlestar Galactica episodes showing up as they are about Batman Begins. (And the serenity movie is a consolation prize; another season or three of firefly would have been far more appreciated...)
Felten: Hollywood designing our computers Posted Aug 11, 2005 5:52 UTC (Thu) by jamesmrh (guest, #31622) [Link] It's interesting how the paper keeps using the term hackers to refer to people violating copyright (or content provider policy), regardless of how or why they do it.
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