Gates on Digital Restrictions Technologies

doormat writes "According to this article, Gates says you can choose not to use the new secure PC technology that they're developing. Is that going to be a choice like being a vegetarian, or like choosing not to eat at all?" There's also a short piece about DRM and Linux, which is a follow-up to Linus on DRM.

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[mrpuffypants]

It's interesting that a main reason for DRM is because of how inherently insecure Windows is to begin with :)

Re:Sure...we can use pencils

[geekee]

"But yet, at the same time, how is this, say, any more secure than a PGP'ed open format document, for instance? Our 'secure' solutions are already here, and all we need is an initiatve to use them in a positive way, and not an anti-competitive manner, such as that M$ is employing."

Wrong. The whole point of Palladium is that if the hardware isn't secure, a hacker on your machine can look through your memory and find unencryted versions of pgp documents or the keys themselves to decrypt them. The anti-DRM people want this ability. That's what they're talking about when they say things like freedom to control your own machine.

Re:If you opt out

[crazyphilman]

OR, I could stick to Linux, which I relatively trust and whose developers I think are a little more lofty-minded than their Microsoft counterparts. But, really -- don't you think they're going to finegle with the system to make life hard for non-joiners and GDIs ("God Damned Independents") who don't want to play ball? I mean, you know, this is MICROSOFT. And, INTEL. You know what I mean.