Yes, Trusted Computing is used for DRM
Don't despair, back doors are currentyl being considered:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4713018.stm
Ross Anderson remarks:
I’m in favour of court-mandated shortcuts past rights-management systems,
on competition-policy grounds. In our APIG
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2006/02/yes_trusted_
com.html
Yes, Trusted Computing is used for DRM
Ever since the Trusted Computing Group went public about its plan to
put a security chip inside every PC, its members have been denying
embed DRM everywhere. IBM and Microsoft have instead stressed genuinely
useful applications, like signing programs to be certain they don’t
contain a rootkit. But at this week’s RSA show, Lenovo showed off a
ROFLMAO!
These applications are not real-world applications as we know them. Only