Intel Cutting Linux Out of Content Market

An Anonymous Reader wrote in to mention an Inquirer story suggesting that Intel is planning on cutting Linux out of the content market. From the article: "The vehicle to do this is called East Fork, the upcoming and regrettable Intel digital media 'platform'. The funny part is that the scheme is already a failure, but it will hurt you as it thrashes before it dies. Be afraid, be very afraid."

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[Brightest Light]

Try a site like Magnatune.

They let you preview all of the songs on every album for sale, and though they may not have RIAA-signed artists, they've got a pretty good selection, and I try to shamelessly plug them every chance I get. Best of all, all you need is an mp3 player of some sort to listen to the 128kbps song previews (which are the full songs, not 30 second snippets). The prices are very reasonable, and 50% of the sale price of the album goes straight to the artist; so you can buy more music than you would on amazon, and the people who made it will get fairly compensated for their work and talent. You should check it out, you might like it.

Re:So how is this going to kill fair use?

[mrchaotica]

What's to stop me downloading stuff to the DRM box, then simply shipping it over to the non-DRM box.

The DRM, of course.

It's all data.

Yeah, but your "DRM box" is no longer a general-purpose computer. It can only deal with particular kinds of data -- namely, "allowed" data.

Are they going to prevent me from shipping DRM data over my own network?

Yes. That's what the DRM is for.

I mean, Longhorn could have code to check that every network box attached to it is DRM-enabled, but is it going to check that my USB key attached to those boxes is? I doubt it.

Well, you're wrong, because once they finish rolling out their Treacherous Computing crap the "USB" on the DRM box will only work with "Trusted" "USB" keys.