Gilmore On Hardware-Restricted Content

An unnamed reader links to John Gilmore's explanation of just why it's a bad idea to let companies (Intel in particular) cave to industry demands for so-called content protection in hardware. The upshot is that if such measures really are built in, the general-purpose computer may not have long to live.

Comments

Its pirates getting what they deserve

[GoatPigSheep]

After years of losing money to users pirating games, music, videos, and anything else that can possibly be pirated, the companies are now cracking down and trying to save their dwindling markets. I see nothing wrong with this, it is simply companies trying to stay in bussiness. It's because of the people who pirate software that we have these measures now.

And don't say that everyone should just move to free software, we all know the quality issues and how 'well' open-source companies fare.