Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:39:59 -0400 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] |
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Larry McVoy wrote:
.> If you were a powerful .> corporation, you might lobby Congress for more laws to protect your .> works, you might start a "Trusted Computing" initiative to make sure .> that the data was all encrypted so that only your programs could access .> that data, etc.
So you are saying that the whole TCPA/Palladium thing is a sham, designed so that only one company's products can be used to access DRM-managed media? That's what I thought from day one...
What's stopping an open-source reimplementation? Or keeping Sony and partners from creating a "DRM Linux" for their embedded OS?
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