AMD's New DRM

DefectiveByDesign writes "Remember how AMD said they'd make use of ATI's GPU technology to make better technology? Well, not all change is progress. InfoWorld's Tom Yager reports that AMD plans to block access to the framebuffer in hardware to help enforce DRM schemes, such as allowing more restricted playback of Sony Blu-Ray disks. They can pry my Print Screen key from my cold, dead fingers."

Comments

Re:Power to the empire

[Cerberus7]

Did you not get the memo? Christian bashing is ALWAYS relevant.

Re:from MPAA to DELL

[Miseph]

You seem to be operating under the pretense that Dell is willing to not only take a stand for their home customers, but willing to do so against extremely large corporate interests. I'm not sure where you got this idea, but I assure you it is quite wrong. If nothing else, Michael Dell wants DRM for political reasons; he's a top Republican, and cramming this through could probably net him some serious political (and financial) capital in "liberal" Hollywood.

This is almost as stupid as thinking the Nazgul are on "our" side, and that if a FOSS user is in hot water with M$ etc. they'll swoop in and save the poor soul in order to protect open source... it's a nice dream, but they'd much rather cut all ties between you and IBM, burden you with any number of minor problems they can scrounge up, and watch you go down in flames as their patsy.