The chip monitors the boot process, checking signatures and taking hashes (kicking butt and taking names?) on all instructions that load, from the BIOS to the OS kernel to the applications. If your VMWare or other emulator code isn't signed, you can't run it without shutting out the chip's crypto functions.
The point isn't that it's onerous, it's that it's pointless.
It's dubious how many movie theatres actually enforce the age limits or R movies.
Is there some reason parents can't already limit the games their children purchase?
Is there any reason whatsoever that children can't find adult proxies to buy games for them, in the same way they always find someone to buy them booze & cigarettes?
Besides, if you don't let them buy it at the store, you'll drive them to get it from *gasp!* software pirates!
The point is that it's a weak law that can't even accomplish what it sets out to do, created by lawmakers who need to look busy more than actually solve real problems. It's not that the law is evil, it's that it's superfluous.
The program captures & analyzes keystrokes, made by programmers fixing bugs and making enhancements to the program, which captures and analyzes keystrokes made by programmers.....
1) The SSSCA passes congress, mandating the integration of proprietary Digital Rights Management technology into all electronics sold in the US.
2) Cheap printable circuits blossom as a way for "hardware pirates" to manufacture their own decoders without integrating said DRM.
3) Media Cartels return to square one. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.
So what happens to the printers then? Are they somehow going to be banned unless they can automatically produce circuits that integrate the SSSCA's DRM?
I realize I may very be using a prejudiced source in citing the FBI's affidavit filed in court, but here goes.
The affidavit states that AEBPR license keys were sold through Register Now!, and American ecommerce provider, to American buyers, in American currency. Would this not constitute US jurisdiction? Sure, the transactions between Register Now! and US buyers would make those parties liable, but would the transactions between RN and ElComSoft make them culpable within US Jurisdiction?
Secondly, isn't the fact Skylarov is expressly identified as the coyright holder sufficient to warrant his arrest?
According to the affidavit, the splash screen of the program identifies him as the rights holder. I've since been corrected by unconfirmed reports that his name only appears on the 1.0 version, and only then jointly with ElComSoft.
Even so - isn't that enough?
Understand, I'm not saying the DMCA isn't a bogus law that needs to go, just trying to clarify some technical points of the case.
While promoting freedom of speech is nice, it irks me that the poster child for American free speech is just another company trying to make money. If AEBPR were Open Source, then there's something I could REALLY get behind.
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The chip monitors the boot process, checking signatures and taking hashes (kicking butt and taking names?) on all instructions that load, from the BIOS to the OS kernel to the applications. If your VMWare or other emulator code isn't signed, you can't run it without shutting out the chip's crypto functions.
This is what we'll all be using once all the consumer speakers on the market end up with a Fritz Chip. :)
The point isn't that it's onerous, it's that it's pointless.
It's dubious how many movie theatres actually enforce the age limits or R movies.
Is there some reason parents can't already limit the games their children purchase?
Is there any reason whatsoever that children can't find adult proxies to buy games for them, in the same way they always find someone to buy them booze & cigarettes?
Besides, if you don't let them buy it at the store, you'll drive them to get it from *gasp!* software pirates!
The point is that it's a weak law that can't even accomplish what it sets out to do, created by lawmakers who need to look busy more than actually solve real problems. It's not that the law is evil, it's that it's superfluous.
The program captures & analyzes keystrokes, made by programmers fixing bugs and making enhancements to the program, which captures and analyzes keystrokes made by programmers.....
1) The SSSCA passes congress, mandating the integration of proprietary Digital Rights Management technology into all electronics sold in the US.
2) Cheap printable circuits blossom as a way for "hardware pirates" to manufacture their own decoders without integrating said DRM.
3) Media Cartels return to square one. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.
So what happens to the printers then? Are they somehow going to be banned unless they can automatically produce circuits that integrate the SSSCA's DRM?
Of course! It's the DMCA.
In response to the jurisdiction issue:
I realize I may very be using a prejudiced source in citing the FBI's affidavit filed in court, but here goes.
The affidavit states that AEBPR license keys were sold through Register Now!, and American ecommerce provider, to American buyers, in American currency. Would this not constitute US jurisdiction? Sure, the transactions between Register Now! and US buyers would make those parties liable, but would the transactions between RN and ElComSoft make them culpable within US Jurisdiction?
Secondly, isn't the fact Skylarov is expressly identified as the coyright holder sufficient to warrant his arrest?
According to the affidavit, the splash screen of the program identifies him as the rights holder. I've since been corrected by unconfirmed reports that his name only appears on the 1.0 version, and only then jointly with ElComSoft.
Even so - isn't that enough?
Understand, I'm not saying the DMCA isn't a bogus law that needs to go, just trying to clarify some technical points of the case.
While promoting freedom of speech is nice, it irks me that the poster child for American free speech is just another company trying to make money. If AEBPR were Open Source, then there's something I could REALLY get behind.
People give away money to for-profit companies all the time, never to see it again.
They're called investors... ;p