Intel quietly adds DRM to new chips
 

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article...id=155&tid=137
http://www.digitmag.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4915

Basically, Intel is embedding Digital Rights Management stuff into their new dual-core processor Pentium D and accompanying 945 chipset, launching may 26th. DRM is supposidly supposed to allow copyright holders to prevent distribution of unathorized material from the motherboard rather than through the OS.


Problems with DRM include the fact that its filled with security holes, opening up a lot of great new ways for script kiddies to hit PCs with. And then of course theres the fundamental flaw that it allows for various corporations to have control over what people can and can't do with their PC.

Funny how Intel isn't announcing any of this and trying to keep it quiet. I'm glad I switched to AMD years ago.

Re: Intel quietly adds DRM to new chips
 

if intel keeps going on for this track, amd would be smart enough to skip drm and make it for coorporations or something ;) Then everybody switces to AMD because its 'optional' ;)

Re: Intel quietly adds DRM to new chips
 

I have an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ and I'm happy with it :D

Re: Intel quietly adds DRM to new chips
 

I place a bet: in less than 5 years, we'll need to mod our motherboards with modchips like gamers do with their playstations.

I've been seeing that coming for a long time.

Re: Intel quietly adds DRM to new chips
 

Intel & Microsoft have been talking about DRM for awhile now. I just hope AMD doesn't follow suit, after the Prescott i pretty much gave up on Intel. I agree with PMB, pretty soon you won't be able to anything on a computer without it being restricted in one way or another. I mean heck they already tried to strangle backup technologies (Ugh....Induce Act)

Just try to remember though guys, nothings fool proof.

Re: Intel quietly adds DRM to new chips
 

Well I sure didn't, this news article surprised me a lot. I always knew they'd do thing like to the OS and software, but I never suspected they'd muck around with people's hardware.

I'd better find a good soldering kit to buy with my next PC.

Re: Intel quietly adds DRM to new chips
 

well, as long as they don't force it by law, there will always be an alternative. Just like dvd players... most players sold here in denmark are codefree, because people, how stupid they might seem, actually have become aware of the advantages.

I think the same will happen with computers, as long as somebody are actually producing computerparts worth buying without code.

What might happen is that ie amd has two lines. one drm-line of processors and one line without drm. The drm processors might be sold til companies... who knows, ms could make a cheaper windows which requires drm or whatever, so companies actually would be interested in owning drm protected material.

so the generel point here is that I think we as private customers still will be able to choose whether we want drm or not in the future, because there will be a demand.

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One thing that can be noticed very easily is that the US create mountains of laws to protect copyright. They spend huge amounts of money trying to track down the 15-year-old girls downloading some No Doubt and Jay-Z songs. But they can only do this inside the US.
Meanwhile, in Europe, they pressure the governments to make similar laws. But Europe, as liberal as it is (comparing to the US), refuses to accept those laws, what I think is very healthy.
Brazil is "sitting in the fence", as we say. The laws are not as though as the US ones (and we suffer pressure from them because of that), but I don't think they can be considered liberal as well.
I just hope that when we fix the paper castle that Mercosul has become, we sign a cooperation treaty with the European Union (what has been in the plans of both blocks for a long time... Issues like agricultural subsidies in Europe are pending 9_9)... That way, I hope we can get some "liberalness" on that area here.

Re: Intel quietly adds DRM to new chips
 

drm won't make it. Simply because people don't want it. When people stop buying new stuff, and keep the old 'non-drm' stuff, they will stop producing it. The best way to hurt any company is through its sales...

EDIT:
btw, i thought mostly illegal software was used by small companies? I thought that was the major 'miss of money' instead of those mp3's and such. As if we don't have enough music formats to play music in. This world is getting nuts.

Re: Intel quietly adds DRM to new chips
 

Probably yes, the main revenue loss would be small firms using unliscenced software.

The entertainment/software industry has the tendency to bloat their so called "lost revenue" from copyright infringement.

They claim that 1 download = 1 lost sale, which is false. The vast majority of people who do this wouldn't have bought the music/software/whatever anyway.

But then of course being honest doesn't match they're buisness model. So.. they're either lying or just plain stupid.


Personally, I'm against "piracy", and of course it'd be best if it wasn't there, but its a problem that cannot be eliminated. The inane laws and technology that they create will only hurt their customers, people will always find ways to curcumvent the deterrents in place.