Well in the end the OS need to support it so this doesn't concern us. In some new ARM cards there are something called TrustZone which can also be used to implement DRM.
What Intel does is only offer the ability to implement DRM in the OS through hardware support. I don't defend them and say this is a good thing but a hardware supplier can never force you to use a specific OS. my 0.02$ On 5/31/05, Constantine A. Murenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Intel announced its new dual-core Intel Pentium D processors and 945 > chipsets, and combination thereof by the names of Lyndon and Anchor > Creek. > > However, sources indicate that being dual-core is not the major > feature of the new technologies. Guess what is? DRM. Yes, the one that > might very well allow the worst dream of Treacherous Computing to come > true, and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four novel merge with > reality. > > To make things even more interesting, Intel refused to make any > official comments "for security purposes". I guess what they want is > to have everyone convert to the new platform, and then tell us, 'oh, > btw, your computers are going to stop working in a few months unless > you install one of the certified OSs from the US authorities'. > > 2002: > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5858 > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html > etc > > 2005: > http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=13912 > http://www.digitmag.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4915 > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23548 > http://digg.com/hardware/DRM_Embedded_In_New_Intel_Chips > http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/28/1718200&tid=118&tid=155&tid=137 > > websites: > http://www.againsttcpa.com/ > > Finally, here is Intel press-release, which for obvious reasons does > not mention anything about DRM: > http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20050526comp.htm > > Cheers, > Constantine.
