Re: Death by code release

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:07:54 +0900, Peter Evans said:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 06:19:25PM -0800, Rob Thompson wrote:
> > Peter Evans wrote:
> > >   Well, I wonder if it is as anal as vista (which I have, but
> > >   to be quite honest, can't be arsed to install) about HDCP and
> > >   content encraption.
>  
> > It would be a safe assumption that it will be worse.  Remember,
> > Micro$oft was the fine group that force Palladium down our throats.  But
> > to be fair, we all know what can be said about assumptions.
>
>       Ah, but Palladium stops spam!
>
>       All I can find though, is FUD though. Does it really exist?

Many systems now include a TPM chipset.  That's about all that's *really*
happened. Most of the rest evaporated when it became clear that consumers
really prefer their media without insane DRM attached to it (except for
all the Vista DRM stuff that still ended up in there anyhow).

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