Just read this, saw it at slashdot.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=24638

Don't understand completely what's happening.
Reminds me kinda of the sort of handshake that happens between
an xbox and a game, whereby only those games that have been
digitally signed will play on a proper xbox.

this sounds pretty bad. could the next generation of media devices
be owned by M$ and Intel, just like they seem to own the IBM PC platform.

I think that Intel is more of a threat to linux than a supporter.

If you remember they did basically nothing to stop M$ from developing
its own USB standard. Which means that when Longhorn is released it
will be the only OS capable of writing to these new removable storage
devices. That is unless you want to pay for a less popular and hence
more expensive variant of the same motherboard.

Windows is already way too widespread.

Am I the only one who doesn't want to see M$ in my lounge room?

That's sad. But that's just Intel, right? So we can use AMD instead, right?
Oh, no... My PC is Intel. But not EF. If Intel thinks they will get away with this, than they don't know us yet, if you get my drift.

I think what he's trying to say, is whatever we use that isn't this East Fork, will make us criminals... Intel isn't just developing this technology for computers, it'll be in home entertainment systems, ie, your DVD player, your CD player, all of it.... and with this 'DRM"
model they're foisting upon us, they can concievably sell you a dvd that only plays once, or that you have to pay for every time you watch, CDs too. I'm sure some astute hackers out there will find ways around it, but you won't want to get caught.

Welcome to George Orwell's 1984, it was only late by 22 years.

JohnTzu

The market has already spoken, a long time ago, and this genie is not going to be put back into its bottle now.

And you'd think that they would have caught on by now. DreamWorks had to restate a quarter of profits into a rather substantial loss because of ... physical media. If they had arranged what everyone really wants -- any song you want to hear, any movie you want to watch, anytime and anywhere you want it -- they would save a lot of money.

"Like it or not," (and they don't...) electronic distribution is the future of these industries. Prices, and pricing models, are not going to remain as they are, and it's not because customers have suddenly become thieves.

"The video store" was basically the right distribution-model, but the wrong medium. People usually don't want to buy DVDs because they don't watch them over and over again. They always want something new., and when they want it they want it right-now. Networking, and networking alone, can deliver that. But they just don't get it. They just refuse to see. And don't even try to sell a "DVD you can only use once!" Cluelessness hurts.

get over to ebay and start buying all the hard disks , cd rom/ cd burners, and mobo's that one can afford because that DRM garbage will be out soon!

Why on earth should I buy more CDs? I'm trying quietly to sell them. All of the music that I want now, I buy from the Internet or simply listen to on-line. As soon as on-demand video is available, DVDs are going the same route.