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?"

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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.