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Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM

Posted by timothy on from the folks-are-surprised-about-this-why-exactly? dept.

An anonymous reader submits "Several people have discovered that the new Intel kernel Apple has included with the Developer Kit DVD uses TCPA/TPM DRM. More specifically, it includes "a TCPA/Palladium implementation that uses a Infineon 1.1 chip which will prevent certain parts of the OS from working unless authorized."

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  1. Damn Microsoft! by Geekenstein · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hate those bastards! I knew they were going to try and sneak this crap past us! They were plo...oh wait, did you say Apple?

    Wow! Spectacular use of technology Steve! You're my hero!

    1. Re:Damn Microsoft! by gordgekko · · Score: 5, Funny

      The DRM makes the OS runs snappier!

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    2. Re:Damn Microsoft! by themoodykid · · Score: 3, Funny

      I don't care how snappy it is. If your OS is having the "runs", you've got bigger issues.

    3. Re:Damn Microsoft! by seanadams.com · · Score: 4, Funny

      The only real reason Apple doesn't have to treat its customers like thieves is that you already paid them through your own asshole for the hardware.

      That bit in your contract about the "per anum" fee may have been a typo.

      I'm an Apple user, and I've always paid through the nose...

    4. Re:Damn Microsoft! by identity0 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of one of the new Macs (a 1.6terahz G6 w/256 Gigs of RAM and OS X Manx) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 700 Meg rip of Braveheart from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. And there's a popup screen telling me "Don't Steal Movies" the entire time.

      At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    5. Re:Damn Microsoft! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
      For me, my Apple hardware is a big reason I moved to OS X. Running OS X on my Dell just wouldn't be the same.


      I know, I know. Those multi-button mice are a bitch aren't they.
    6. Re:Damn Microsoft! by Taladar · · Score: 2, Funny

      Newsflash:
      Researchers discover: Some people are willing to pay more for a product then others...

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    7. Re:Damn Microsoft! by elrous0 · · Score: 3, Funny
      In Soviet Russia, tired old joke rehash YOU.

      -Eric

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    8. Re:Damn Microsoft! by coolGuyZak · · Score: 2, Funny
      Or when my employer wants to make me take a drug test even though I don't even so much as smoke cigerettes or drink alchohol and my job involves me sitting at a desk reading and writing things of little consequence.

      Aww, come on. Slashdot's not really that bad, is it?

    9. Re:Damn Microsoft! by schtum · · Score: 3, Funny

      I for one welcome our tired, rehashed overlords.

    10. Re:Damn Microsoft! by eck011219 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Sarchasm: the gaping social abyss created between people who can detect irony and those who can't.

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    11. Re:Damn Microsoft! by Elranzer · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yeah but do the tired old jokes run Linux?

    12. Re:Damn Microsoft! by CptNerd · · Score: 3, Funny


      Imagine a Beowulf cluster of tired old jokes...

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  2. Re:Who's more evil? by datafr0g · · Score: 1, Funny

    Apple!

    Microsoft have always been evil! :)

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  3. Gentlemen, start your debuggers by Jeremi · · Score: 5, Funny

    The first person to crack this DRM implementation will win a free story about it on Slashdot!

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  4. Zealotry by NitsujTPU · · Score: 5, Funny

    More specifically, it includes "a TCPA/Palladium implementation that uses a Infineon 1.1 chip which will prevent certain parts of the OS from working unless authorized."

    Oh no, my two sources of zealotry are colliding. Eeek! It can't be evil if Apple does it, right... but DRM is always evil, right? /. I need you! Tell me what to think!

  5. Correction - Re:Gentlemen, start your debuggers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The first person to crack this DRM implementation will win two free stories about it on Slashdot!

  6. I thought this way by Man+in+Spandex · · Score: 2, Funny

    how did you think Apple was going to keep their OS on the computers they make?

    javascript:void(osx.g_sDisableAppleCheck='all')

    :X

  7. Re:FP! by fr0dicus · · Score: 2, Funny

    DRM could be put to valid uses, such as stopping first posters...

  8. Re:DRM by maxwell+demon · · Score: 2, Funny
    And don't label me as paranoid.

    Don't fear. The moderation "-1 Paranoid" has not yet been implemented on Slashdot.
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