From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262303AbTD3Seg (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:34:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262306AbTD3Seg (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:34:36 -0400 Received: from siaag2ae.compuserve.com ([149.174.40.135]:63703 "EHLO siaag2ae.compuserve.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262303AbTD3Sef (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:34:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:39:59 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: Why DRM exists [was Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!] To: Larry McVoy Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Message-ID: <200304301443_MC3-1-36BD-76E5@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Larry McVoy wrote: .> If you were a powerful .> corporation, you might lobby Congress for more laws to protect your .> works, you might start a "Trusted Computing" initiative to make sure .> that the data was all encrypted so that only your programs could access .> that data, etc. So you are saying that the whole TCPA/Palladium thing is a sham, designed so that only one company's products can be used to access DRM-managed media? That's what I thought from day one... What's stopping an open-source reimplementation? Or keeping Sony and partners from creating a "DRM Linux" for their embedded OS? ------ Chuck