Trusted Computing

derrickoswald writes "John Walker, one of the founders of Autodesk, has posted The Digital Imprimatur, a monograph on technologies such as the Trusted Computing initiative. Some of the prognostications and conclusions reached may not be palatable to Slashdot readers."

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[EvilTwinSkippy]

This is Autodesk we are talking about here folks. The same guys who sell software packages that cost several thousand dollars a pop. They DID try DRM technology in the form of printer-port keys. They wound up abandoning the effort because several TSR's emulated the dongle in memory allowing you to rampantly copy the software.

Come one, hardware keys didn't work in the past. Now they are getting all hot and bothered because Microsoft wants to write them into the OS.

This is a company with a vested interest and a hard-on. It is not an independent futurist looking at the big picture.