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AMD Opteron to support Palladium
Jim Norton writes "This article is just a reminder that AMD is just as guilty as Intel in supporting TCPA / Palladium. AMD has announced that Opteron will be compatible with the Palladium Initiative and that AMD is part of the 'Trusted Computing Alliance'."
It's not that companies like AMD and Intel particularly like this effort. As hardware/chip/part manufacturers, it's just more work for them. They support the inititive because they need to stay on Microsoft's good side in the up coming x86-64/itanium battle.
..start buying 'old' processors and set up your own cluster.. you won't need new CPU for a while :)
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To Run Linux on the opteron. Seriously, I think all these DRM moves by MS our great, /. should welcome them, it will just speed up the world migration to Linux. There even seems to be a lot more interest in Linux these past few weeks on usenet since certain "free" winxp installtions can't use sp1.
That won't happen directly, it's too obvious. What could happen is this:
Law 1) Make it illegal to disable DRM unless the companies say you can (this is already in place).
Law 2) Make DRM mandatory in all hardware devices (currently being pushed hard by the ??AA).
Law 3) Require DRM hardware to ONLY run DRM-compliant software (not too hard to imagine).
Boom. That's the end of legal free (and Free) software in the USA. It would also be the end of programming as a hobby; programming would require expensive signatures in order to be allowed to run.
End of lesson. You may press the button.
Well if there are more factors as you say then WTF are they? Why don't you share a few with us?
I have one: AMD wants to stay in business. M$ is THE ONLY OS that works with most every peripheral and software package on a consistant basis. Why? Because M$ is a monopoly and everyone knows it. I want to be a Linux fan but there is no Linux company that will get off their ass and make a version where I don't have to compile shit. The end user should not have to recompile the kernel. Linux has a great future but that is the FUTURE. AMD needs an OS NOW. Since linux can't do it who else will? M$. Businesses are here to make money and to stay afloat AMD went ahead an sold their souls. Would you have it that Intel was the only processor company out there? I certainly wouldn't.
If you don't think Apple will be up against the wall like everyone else, implementing some form of DRM, you're deluded. Once content begins to be released with DRM restrictions, Apple will have to make a competing implementation, or else you'll find your precious lickable G4 unable to run an increasing number of things. The only technologies that could survive without DRM (assuming the CBDTPA doesn't pass) would be those that don't share a market with Windows, and they are very few indeed.
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"Comments that looked like they were from Pat Moorhead on an Aussie Web site are not from Pat Moorhead, the firm has just told us.
In fact, according to an AMD UK representative, AMD's Opteron products will run any kind of content in the future -- contrary to the report in The Age, on which our original report, below, was based.
Part of the content in The Age failed to distinguish between comments Moorhead made and conjecture, AMD said.
AMD, in fact, claims it is the "good guy", and even though it is a member of the "trusted computing" initiative, will allow users to opt in whether to use this type of technology or not.
"There is nothing [in Hammer] that could actually prevent a user running unlicensed content," the representative from AMD said."
Make damn sure to check the most current of facts before posting FUD, fellow
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Palladium means that anyone who wants to be able to view Palladium-protected media will have to have Palladium-compliant hardware. It's a goddamn goldmine for Intel and AMD! Imagine all the people who wouldn't otherwise bother to upgrade buying new chips so they can watch their DVD movies or whatever. That's a large amount of sales.
Software piracy is victimless theft.
For forced DRM to work, all the hardware must support it and be locked down to prevent tampering. If the rest of the world says no to Palladium/TCPA, the Taiwanese motherboard makers will still make unrestricted motherboards for all the non-US markets. It could be as easy as a BIOS flash with a Euro or Asian ROM.
If you turn it off, you will be unable to use Palladium protected media,
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:-D
For some reason I have the strong suspicion that most pirated videos or MP3s will NOT be Palladium protected. . .
Call it a huntch.
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With any Palladium system, you will be able to disable Palladium in BIOS, so it _doesn't matter_ if a system supports it or not. If you turn it off, you will be unable to use Palladium protected media, just like pre-Palladium systems.
...and with any DIVX enabled player, you could just watch DVDs and never touch a DIVX disc, right? That is of course until DIVX "enhanced" players have a majority share in the market - then DVDs would have disappeared. Likewise, when most PCs support palladium, it will start becoming mandatory. Want to play that new FPS game online? It needs to run in a trusted enviorment to make sure you're not cheating. Want to run the latest version of MS Office because MS changed the document format yet again and you need to open documents from work? MS Office now requires Palladium support enabled to run. If you're presently not using a MS OS, it may be easy to overlook the significance of Palladium. Just remember, if you don't speak out for the Windows users because you're not a Windows user, just wait 'till big brother comes for you because "only hackers/terrorists/child pornographers use non-palladium hardware/software".
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
Just get a Transmeta processor and hack the Pentium emulation layer...
This system is very bad news. Opt-out will be very short lived, as I'm sure MicroSoft expects Windows and many Windows apps to be broken very quickly, and the hackers will tell people to turn off TCPA to run the hacked binaries. Then the RIAA/MPAA will insist that the government make a regulation that requires people to stop making chips where it can be turned off.
AMD has no choice in this matter. It needs to support palladium so that Microsoft ports windows to x86-64. Without windows, AMD is dead. Notice that Intel is doing the same thing -- again because it has no choice. Once again, Microsoft has everyone by the balls, so I suggest you instead direct your mail to One Microsoft Way.
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It's not that the two companies COULDN'T do that, it's that neither company WANTS to do that!
....everyone you can!...tell "PC Magazine", the marketing droids at your company, technical manager in your department....tell your aunt that's calling about "getting a Dell"...tell everyone that talks with you about comptuters that this sucks....it's crippled....."it's really bad, I wouldn't spend my money on it..."
The hardware makers are in a cage too, if either one of them DOESN'T support it, they could hand the market share to the one that does. They're both FORCED by the margins to go along!...
The only answer lays with the consumer....DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT....EVER!...
DONT EVEN LET IT GET A FOOTHOLD!.....
YOU!...the person reading this...use your influence as a tech person reading this list....tell everyone you know that
that "this Paladium thing sucks!"
tell anyone asking you for tech advice..."...this Paladium thing sucks..."...
Work it into casual conversation..."..yeah, you know that this new Paladium thing REALLY sucks...."..
Need to kill this thing now...and we shouldn't take our collective power for granted on this one....you can bet that MS and RIAA are working up the "positive" buzz for this right now. I imagine that there will be a media campaign for this after Christmas season....
Nothing kills a new product faster than "consumer apathy," and for good measure, a heaping helping of distrust/dislike.
We need to start buzzing about this thing rather than quietly accepting defeat/takaway of our rights.