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RMS Urges Opposition to "Trusted Computing"
Andy Tai writes "In this Newsforge article, Richard Stallman analyzes the "Trusted Computing" initiative and Microsoft's Palladium, points out that such initiatives are really means to ensure your computer can be trusted by Microsoft and Hollywood (you can't do things they don't want), and urges computer users to organize, to support the Public Knowledge and the Digital Speech projects and to use their consumer power to block "Trusted Computing" in its tracks."
Sandboxes and an agent watching the mail spool.
... and be just as accurate as you saying that MS is driven by a desire to disallow fair use.
Sure, but then this is not a part of Palladium. MS offered _zero_ ways Palladium might defeat these attacks. Therefore, it is rightly understood that Palladium has absolutely nothing todo with what we normally think of 'security'.
Stop thinking like a medieval catholic zealot, and start thinking like a modern-day person.
What the hell are you talking about? Do you normally randomly spew incoherant phrases? What do you have against making sense?
Were you at the talk? Are you aware that Brian admitted that the elimination of Fair Use was one of Palladiums goals? This is not in contention. What is in contention: Microsoft passing 'security' off as the primary goal.
"The project began about four years ago as an epiphany among a small group of Microsoft employees who were working to solve the problem of content protection for online movies."
"The end result is a system with security similar to a closed-architecture system but with the flexibility of the open Windows platform."
And to stir up the pot a bit.
The way Palladium eliminates fair use is as follows:
Lets say I develop an application or send a document. And I am not interested in getting a certificate for that application or document. Well Palladium can stop my application or document because it is untrusted. Fair enough, that is true. BUT and this is a big BUT, the control of determining this is not in my hands.
It sort of goes along the warrenty lines. Most people in Slashdot could take apart a computer with their eyes blindfolded. But if you buy a namebrand you will void the warrenty. Fair enough because the company does not know who is twiddling with the computer. The only catch is that I can void my warrenty if I want to. I have that choice!
Palladium will not allow me to void my fair use if a company deems it so. This runs counter to general consumer laws since the person who decides is not the consumer, but the company from where end product came from. This means I do not have a choice.
Big difference. Now about taking them to court? Yeah, yeah, do you happen to have the money to take them to court? The same situation will arise with as with Kaaza. Legally Kaaza is not responsible and hence the companies have to go after those that share. A very difficult scenario. With Palladium the tables are turned in that they can shut off access to one CD and you have to fight to have every CD turned "on". Will society actually go after every instance of wrong doing? Not likely!!!
Now about looser terms? Ha! Time and time again it has been proven that when corporations can increase their profit lines they will do so regardless. Corporations are entities that only care about money and not social ethics. Otherwise we would not have Enron and Tyco messes.
We have these problems now with "stealing" because corporations are gouging for CD's. Here in Europe the big Labels were just fined for price fixing CD's....
"You can't make a race horse of a pig"
"No," said Samuel, "but you can make very fast pig"
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This is wrong -- Chris Hellwig wants him banned from LKML. Alan Cox, Roman Zippel, Adam Richter, Jeff Garzik, Andrew Morton, and Larry McVoy want not to have him banned (for reasons of free speech and the efficacy of killfiles for those who don't want to hear him), and so far no one's piped up agreeing with Hellwig. It would be correct to say that "a kernel developer" wants to have him banned.