On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 13:14 +0800, Dark1 wrote: > the inquirers says NO > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23708 > > As far as I could tell from that report Intel hasn't actually said > that the chipsets don't have DRM technologies. All they've said is > that the chipsets don't have "unannounced" DRM technologies. > > Does anyone remember DRM for the apple DVDs. That was heaps of fun. > I love using Apple products but the day they start incorporating DRM > into their machines is the day I switch to being a PC user.
What, so you can have DRM incorprorated into the product? iTunes uses DRM. DVD players - all of them (well, legit ones) - use DRM. Windows Media Player uses DRM. Some x86 PCs (particularly IBM notebooks) already have technology from the TCPA embedded that can, among other more useful things, help enable DRM. Microsoft has been talking about extensive DRM in the next version of Windows, though it's apparently been scaled back a bit now. Apple's doing quite a bit better on the DRM scale overall, but still not great. The only way to be rid of it entirely is to use a "minority" or free OS - Linux, BSD, another *nix, BeOS, etc. Then, of course, you lose some functionality. > Until everyone else is doing it I think it would be a very big > mistake to start incorporating DRM into chipsets. IBM's already doing it, so Apple wouldn't be the first. > If I'm not the > only person with this point of few on DRM then Apple could stand to > lose a lot of loyal customers. Most people won't know or care. They'll probably only be aware of the extra things the movie and music industries will let them do because of it, without realising what they now *can't* do. -- Craig Ringer
