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MS Palladium Technical Talk at Harvard

Posted by timothy on from the you-have-30-seconds-of-prep-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "On December 4, John DeTreville from Microsoft Research will give a technical presentation about Palladium, Microsoft's Digital Rights Management effort. The talk is open to the public and is a good chance to ask questions."

2 of 13 comments (clear)

  1. What I would ask... by jmd! · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...If I weren't hundreds of miles from Harvard.

    1. How does Microsoft plan to allow non-proprietary Operating Systems access to Paladium media?

    (Assuming "we don't" is the first answer:)

    2. Why would consumers want to purchase your product that removes rights they have over their own media?

    (Correct answer: We're a monopoly and they have no choice in the matter. We're serving our own market interests and not those of our customers. We're using our desktop monopoly to gain a stranglehold on all digital media as well, just as we're not supposed to under antitrust law.)

  2. Security improvement ? by OeLeWaPpErKe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How does encrypting a user's files with a key, and then denying the key to the user improve security ?

    The user can no longer independently access his own files, thereby considerably DECREASING security, most defineately not increasing.