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Intel solders DRM into the motherboard
SYDNEY -- Microsoft and the entertainment industry's holy grail of controlling copyright through the motherboard now comes closer as Intel said it is embedding digital rights management within in its latest dual-core processor Pentium D and accompanying 945 chip set.Officially launched worldwide on May 26, the new offerings come digital-rights-management-enabled and will, at least in theory, allow copyright holders to prevent unauthorized copying and distribution of copyrighted materials from the motherboard rather than through the operating system as is currently the case. ...
May 28, 2005 at 01:43 AM in DRM | Permalink
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Great, now instead of having to write new software to break the DRM, now we will have to make new mod chips to break it.
Everyone should ban Intel Chips. That might scare off AMD or IBM from trying the same crap.
Posted by: Brian Wolf | May 28, 2005 8:24:07 AM
This is a feature that Intel's customers want?
Posted by: Tom | May 28, 2005 12:44:20 PM
This is a feature that Intel's customers want?
It's like the car industry. The buyers aren't the customers. The government and the corporations for whom the government is a sock puppet are the customers. Intel's acting like the old Ma Bell back in the day: "We don't care. We don't have to."
Posted by: Czolgosz | May 28, 2005 5:07:27 PM
This new feature saves me the cost of upgrading my PC!
Posted by: Afreyt | May 28, 2005 7:31:14 PM
