Intel Claims No DRM

pallmall1 writes "The Inquirer has an official statement from Intel claiming the Computerworld Today Australia story from May 27th was incorrect, and the Pentium D and the 945 chipsets do not have unannounced DRM technology embedded in them. The statement says Intel products support or will support several copy protection schemes such as Macrovision, DTCP-IP, COPP, HDCP, CGMS-A, and others. The statement concludes: 'While Intel continues to work with the industry to support other content protection technologies, we have not added any unannounced DRM technologies in either the Pentium D processor or the Intel 945 Express Chipset family.' The Intel Chip with DRM story has been previously reported on Slashdot. Update: 06/05 20:12 GMT by Z : Fixed the Macrovision link.

Comments

Of course they're going to deny it!

[Akaihiryuu]

If it's unannounced, I don't expect them to admit to it even if it is really there. The ID on the Pentium 3 was still there as well, even though they claimed to have disabled it after the uproar.

Well

[mcc]

Now that they've said it isn't in there, if it turns out later that they were lying and it is in there, isn't that class-action-lawsuit worthy material?

Because I for one consider a chip which purposefully takes control of my computer away from me and gives it to someone else without my authorization to be broken.

Re:Well

[nEoN nOoDlE]

Because I for one consider a chip which purposefully takes control of my computer away from me and gives it to someone else without my authorization to be broken.

If you consider that to be broken, then you've got a funny definition of broken, because I consider that same thing to be criminal. I'd much rather have a processor that doesn't work instead of one that you've described.

Re:Well

[KillShill]

they've already started.

it's already in audio cards/drivers.

something called "secure audio path".

it's a way of crippling your sound card; preventing it from recording from its inputs if it detects a copy protected stream.

next up is video. check out some of those old NGSCB/palladium screenshots and intel "lagrande" slides... they are implementing encryption aka DRM from the video chip to the display device.. such that you won't have control over what you can do with the data, as you can right now. no more taking screenshots, capturing video without permission etc etc.

they are using the BTF (boil the frog) method. longhorn will only have one or two of the features and they'll build upon it in each release.

if you cannot figure out that this is something no "individual" customer wants, then you need to read more carefully. there is nothing beneficial about reducing machines capabilities. then you consider that perhaps they don't consider end-users customers, then it becomes more clear. sort of like the tv/media advertising business. you are the product, they sell you to their customers.

something will be done about it... but they'll still keep boiling the frog... so when they don't get full DRM in 2006/2007, they'll introduce one new feature each year, for the next 10-20 years. that way those moronic people who pay for products but aren't customers won't notice.

keep treating us badly, and please digging your own grave. of course you won't notice you're digging, since that requires a modicum of intelligence.

Ok, but it is DRM...

[mysidia]

'Macrovision, DTCP-IP, COPP, HDCP, CGMS-A'

These are all DRM technologies. The fact that they are not in themselves a complete DRM solution does not mean they are not DRM technologies: they are significant and have an effect on consumers' digital freedom when combined with other technologies.