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Why tech firms are out of tune (BBC)Why tech firms are out of tune (BBC)Posted Jan 11, 2004 23:11 UTC (Sun) by mmarq (guest, #2332)Parent article: Why tech firms are out of tune (BBC) Its only business!!... Why won't the publishers encrypt their productions, strongly, but with a kind of private/user+piece in a similar way of private/public keys of PGP and GPG... why this "Grip" on hardware and devices, if not only to make market lock-ins?... to prevent copying?... not even for backup purpose?... i wont buy it. If i buy a Movie DVD or a Music CD i want to have the freedom to enjoy them at any of my computers, in the living room sets, in any of my folks or friends home's, in the toylet... and to prevent to buy it again if those DVDs or CDs get damaged, i'm sure, in my country, that i've the right to make a personal backup copy of it... So this DRM apparatus, is only a way to guarantie to M$ the absolute control over the Desktop PC type of computer OS, by which it, M$, lend to the big PC and IT appliances manufactors, HP included of course, the corps of the huge "White Line" business.(60% of all PC sold in US in 2001, if i'm correct). I mean no matter the way you look at it, there is no way for a small local shop or even a much bigger one, to compete with a HP or a DELL for those DRM keys biddings in "Longhorn", and "Longhorn" itself for that matter... anymore... if NGSCB/Paladium triumphs... specialy because this NGSCB thing is positioned to dilute the weight of M$ software price in the all solutions... I WILLING TO BELIVE THAT EVERYBOBY CAN SEE THE HUGE MARKET OPPORTUNITY HERE, AND THEIR CATASTROFIC CONSEQUENCES. Blind leaders, can only make blind technologie,... and M$ has already started its intoxication campaign with TRUST, SECURITY, ANTI-PIRACY, just in time to replace TCO that is completly obsolet by now... and IMO if Linux dont want to be stucked in Dry Land, unable to run in the generality of futur Desktop PC type hardware, it has to deal with that hardware industry with better TECHNICAL PROPOSALS (for drivers), and a little better will in politics(example:Nvidea and Creative in OTTAWA SYNPHOSIUM)... or it will be hostaged for ever of those that only care, in the futur, to run Linux in 32Gb RAM or in 64 parallel super-computers. NOT SCO... NOW F/OSS-LINUX HAS "THE" REAL WAR TO FIGHT.
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Why tech firms are out of tune (BBC) Posted Jan 12, 2004 0:59 UTC (Mon) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] The problem is not so much with the DRM than with the DMCA/EUCD.Breaking a DRM system running on Windows is just a matter of exploiting a hole in Windows. With the track record of MS, not really a challenge. At this point it is easy to make a unencrypted copy. The real problem is that DMCA/EUCD make that illegal (or at least to explain how to do that).
Why tech firms are out of tune (BBC) Posted Jan 12, 2004 16:56 UTC (Mon) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link] Sure. And with it the black market for "Hacked" hardware will blossom like flowers in springtime... And no need for holes in "Windows",... i'm absolutly convinced that there are people right now hacking into celular phones, DVD home sets, Set-top boxes(to watch encryted TV)... and they will for sure find a way to break into any piece of DRM hardware that pop up.Blind leaders and greed are going to transform "White Line", into "Black Line" for gangs to control, because every small corner shop, if Linux and normal hardware fails, is gonna be virtualy illegal. Above all this, guess whom gets to win along with M$ ?
Why tech firms are out of tune (BBC) Posted Jan 12, 2004 17:47 UTC (Mon) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link] "because every small corner shop, if Linux and normal hardware fails, is gonna be virtualy illegal"... is not correct.But "almost every small corner shop(Computer Shop), if Linux and normal hardware fails, will turn into a appliances(PC&Cª) and or consumer electronics shop, or die"... is more correct
Why tech firms are out of tune (BBC) Posted Jan 12, 2004 3:54 UTC (Mon) by neoprene (guest, #8520) [Link] The very pronouncible Paladium was replaced by the cryptic unrememorabe "NGSCB".To make it easier to remember NGSCB stands for "No Good Scummy Crap Bastards".
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