Microsoft, Chip Makers Working On Hardware DRM For Windows 10 PCs

writertype writes: Last month, Microsoft began talking about PlayReady 3.0, which adds hardware DRM to secure 4K movies. Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and Qualcomm are all building it in, according to Microsoft. "Older generations of PCs used software-based DRM technology. The new hardware-based technology will know who you are, what rights your PC has, and won’t ever allow your PC to unlock the content so it can be ripped. ... Unfortunately, it looks like the advent of PlayReady 3.0 could leave older PCs in the lurch. Previous PlayReady technology secured content up to 1080p resolution using software DRM—and that could be the maximum resolution for older PCs without PlayReady 3.0." Years back, a number of people got upset when Hollywood talked about locking down "our content." It looks like we may be facing it again for 4K video.

Comments

Re: This never works

[Anonymous Coward]

Nope, you are in their sights as well. The end goal is to get compensation for every separate ingestion of content. No first sale doctrine, entertainment as a service.

Re:This never works

[g0bshiTe]

The latest gen consoles don't even have a single crack or mod in place, much less an actual break

http://wccftech.com/hackers-break-ps4-firmware-176-webkit-exploit/

http://www.kdramastars.com/articles/71455/20150129/xbox-one-jailbreak-jtag.htm

http://www.se7ensins.com/forums/forums/xbox-one-modding.463/

Re:This never works

[PRMan]

"Was this hack always an inevitability? Perhaps not. Fail0verflow claims it only started to work on the PS3 system when Sony made the decision to disable the machine's Other OS functionality."

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2011/jan/07/playstation-3-hack-ps3

It takes a long time when nobody's trying. As soon as Sony removed OtherOS, it only took a few weeks.