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People seem to be forgetting something about this DRM in the chips...
As new OS' come out it will be fully integrated. no more unpaid for mp3s and movies is a sure thing.
Ok, so big deal, means people will actually have to PAY for their music and movies now.
I do have a huge problem with it though. It's leading to something more sinister than just protecting media.
You may say that it's just drm to protect the industries from thieves but it's sooo much more than that.
This is the first step towards palladium. Right now it's no big deal, but wait until they go full palladium.
Goodbye being able to run unsigned code fellas. Hello to paying out the ass on a monthly basis just to be able to use applications to read and create your own intellectual property. You will be forced to upgrade each time software vendors upgrade. You will be forced to purchase newer versions when your software becomes obsolete because access to those files you created with it will be unreadable and locked out. Mom&Pop software developers will be put out of business completely. No more free software either. Every piece of code would have to be inspected and signed by Microsoft at a hefty price. Defeating palladium would be illegal in many areas. They're already working on this.. they have full government support. SO if you managed to get lets say 'Linux' to run on a palladium machine you would be breaking the law unless it was digitally signed by Microsoft, which will never happen. If you managed to code something to record your own self singing in a mic and was able to get past palladium so it could run, you would be breaking the law. Your internet connection goes down. You can't boot your system!
Read up on palladium folks... DRM is the first step to it.
mark my words.
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