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DRM Based on Trusted Computing Chips
An anonymous reader writes "We've always know that Trusted Computing is really about DRM, but computer makers always denied it. Now that their Trusted Computing chips are standard on most new PCs, they've decided to come clean. According to Information Week, Lenovo has demonstrated a Thinkpad with built-in Microsoft and Adobe DRM that uses a Trusted Computing chip with a fingerprint sensor. Even worse: 'The system is also aimed at tracking who reads a document and when, because the chip can report back every access attempt. If you access the file, your fingerprint is recorded.'"
It is easy to have a virus-spyware free windows computer, just be competent. Bitching about these as a personal problem only makes you look like a moron.
I am one of many. My idea is not unique, nor do I expect my voice alone to sway you. I speak in a chorus of opinion.
When my dad finds out that the two-year checkbook software he's been relying on won't run anymore until more dollars get spent to "upgrade" it, well, let's just say I want to be there with a bucket of popcorn to watch when he storms into Best Buy with my Mom to have it out with the folks that sold it to him. - and so what? Nothing good will come out of that BestBuy is not writing software. They sold him the package and he read the license, didn't he? I mean, if he read the license and still used the software for 2 years prior to this moment, he was OK with it, wasn't he? Nothing will happen, worst case scenario? The police will come to subdue an unrully customer.
You can't handle the truth.