Transmeta to Incorporate DRM in TM5800 Processor

smiff writes "Silicon Valley is reporting that Transmeta will embed 'security' features in its TM5800 Crusoe processor. 'Transmeta said its Crusoe processors...would be slightly altered to tackle security and address requirements for securing sensitive data and intellectual property.' With everyone looking out for security, why don't I feel all warm and fuzzy inside?"

Comments

Who are you?

[david_g]

I'm tired, people. Slashdot repeats itself day after day after day, both in the articles and in the replies to them.

You have no 'right' to share music, movies, or whatever it is you didn't create. You have no 'right' to own a computer, much less one that isn't 'DRM enabled'.

They build, they sell, they dictate the rules. If you don't like the rules, then don't play the game. That's the right you have.

I'm exercising that right. I work with computers, though I don't know how much longer. I look around me and I see people thirsty for love and friendship, and I'm here, afraid of them, afraid that they won't love me. I don't reach out for them because I'm afraid. Instead, here I am, worrying that some stupid CPU is going to incorporate some gold-mine-of-the-day-let's-milk-those-suckers-for- more-cash
technology. Hello?! Something's definitely wrong, and I'm it. I, the loner. I the selfish one. I, he who neglects giving himself to people because he is afraid.

I'm considering going back to college, to study psychology. I want to do something, to help others, and to help myself. I don't know if that's the way I'll take, but I know I don't want to be where I am right now.

"The man who tries to save his life will lose it" -- Jesus Christ

I'm tired of trying to save my life--I only found boredom and sadness. I'm posting this because maybe there are some here that feel the same. To you: I sympathize.

Quit worrying about the DRM enabler of the day. Let them have their petty schemes. Let them reach the nothing that they seek, and know that they have found nothing. Maybe they'll understand, then.

All that time, you'll be busy loving.

Re:Why?

[Oculus Habent]

What does it get you? While the market might be smaller, you have a sight better chance that the people who do read your eBook will pay for it.
Ideally, teh restrictions should never prevent you from copying it, merely from having it in multiple places, just as you cannot loan a friend a copy of the book you are reading. This could mean some media restrictions if certain OSes don't play fairly.

For instance: you download an eBook with DRm on your desktop PC. You start reading it there and decide you want it on your laptop. You could move it, but not copy it.

There are some limitations with a system like that. If you burned a copy of the eBook onto CD-ROM, you could never move it elsewhere - unless your DRM-enabled Burner could damage that part of the disc or some other such tactic. What's bad about this theory? You can't indescriminately copy files. You have to own things.

What's good about this theory? If it works, content could become much cheaper. With less complex distribution and management methods, new "media companies" built from the ashes of the RIAA and MPAA could offer better rates to artists and have lower overhead (imagine: 10 execs, 100 lawyers, and 250 techies... :) and reduce the overall cost to consumers, not only because of the better, cheaper distribution, but because you don't have to factor the cost of piracy into your content.

So, what's good about DRM? Plenty.