> Fits just great, if I go rob a bank but dont take all of their money... ... then you didn't steal all their money, right. if you only take a part of the money, you only stole a part of it, not all; perfectly correct. err, robbed, actually.
TiVo can do much more than just schedule shows for recording on a hd and playing them back later. It tells me what to watch; which shows are good and which are bad. You know, I rely on that functionality, I absolutely cannot decide something like that on my own.
virt just relased his chip tune disk fx 2.0 on monotonik. the professional game musician, who made the soundtracks of several games on the nintendo platform, re-scored 15-year-old nintendo titles from konami, as if he were actually soundtracking them at the time.
you can download them there for beer -- and have a look at that great cover!
no. giana sisters made their debut on the C64 and were the _prototype_ of super mario bros. once you've played both original versions (on the C64 and NES respectively), it becomes obvious that super mario bros. is a shameless rip-off.
okay, so you write an emulator, but microsoft won't like that emulator, so it'll be untrusted code forever and your machine won't let it access any protected data. so what exactly would you emulate with your nice emulator?
maybe you can't even make the emulator decrypt anything even if it has access to the data, because it would need a secret key which is hidden in the real processors, tamper-proof?
> You don't see many computers with VHS support, now do you?
but i see quite a lot of computers with TV ins that can be conntected to any VCR.
> Palladium never hurts the end user -- you can always turn it off.
no, you can't, troll.
many (most?) slashdot readers are known as "über computer literates" in their respective circles of aquaintances and influence quite a lot of bying decisions. imagine what happenes if we all run around and tell everyone that palladium is okay because "you can always turn it off". people will buy palladium PCs, because they are harmless because everything runs on them, as opposed to those stinky old PCs that don't play "windows media files". of course they'll have to buy compatible speakers and monitors after two or three years, because their old ones also stopped working. now that they have those devices anyway, they won't have a problem buying compatible, microsoft-controlled stereos, TVs and PDAs.
and while you still run around thinking palladium never hurts the end user, your friends begin noticing that their hardware is totally crippled and they can't even copy a clip from a video over to their PC in order to send it to a friend. they can't make backup copies of their audio CDs in case they're stolen when the take them with them on their vacation. every time they listen to their favourite song, the warner brothers know about it and send an invoice.
palladium does hurt the end user and you cannot turn it off that easily.
firstly, your OS doesn't have to support DRM in order to run on a DRM chip. if it doesn't, it's just untrusted and totally unable to play any protected media etc. (until someone cracks the protecten, which should happen much faster than microsoft/intel think.)
secondly, DRM doesn't imply closed source, and open source doesn't imply "without DRM". it would be perfectly possible to release an OS with a media player under a open source licence and just keep some cryptographic keys secret, without breaching the protection of "secure" content.
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> Fits just great, if I go rob a bank but dont take all of their money ...
... then you didn't steal all their money, right. if you only take a part of the money, you only stole a part of it, not all; perfectly correct. err, robbed, actually.
so?
TiVo can do much more than just schedule shows for recording on a hd and playing them back later.
It tells me what to watch; which shows are good and which are bad. You know, I rely on that functionality, I absolutely cannot decide something like that on my own.
virt just relased his chip tune disk fx 2.0 on monotonik. the professional game musician, who made the soundtracks of several games on the nintendo platform, re-scored 15-year-old nintendo titles from konami, as if he were actually soundtracking them at the time. you can download them there for beer -- and have a look at that great cover!
> (you know -- that Super Mario clone for Amiga)
no. giana sisters made their debut on the C64 and were the _prototype_ of super mario bros. once you've played both original versions (on the C64 and NES respectively), it becomes obvious that super mario bros. is a shameless rip-off.
okay, so you write an emulator, but microsoft won't like that emulator, so it'll be untrusted code forever and your machine won't let it access any protected data. so what exactly would you emulate with your nice emulator? maybe you can't even make the emulator decrypt anything even if it has access to the data, because it would need a secret key which is hidden in the real processors, tamper-proof?
> You don't see many computers with VHS support, now do you?
but i see quite a lot of computers with TV ins that can be conntected to any VCR.
> Palladium never hurts the end user -- you can always turn it off.
no, you can't, troll.
many (most?) slashdot readers are known as "über computer literates" in their respective circles of aquaintances and influence quite a lot of bying decisions. imagine what happenes if we all run around and tell everyone that palladium is okay because "you can always turn it off". people will buy palladium PCs, because they are harmless because everything runs on them, as opposed to those stinky old PCs that don't play "windows media files". of course they'll have to buy compatible speakers and monitors after two or three years, because their old ones also stopped working. now that they have those devices anyway, they won't have a problem buying compatible, microsoft-controlled stereos, TVs and PDAs.
and while you still run around thinking palladium never hurts the end user, your friends begin noticing that their hardware is totally crippled and they can't even copy a clip from a video over to their PC in order to send it to a friend. they can't make backup copies of their audio CDs in case they're stolen when the take them with them on their vacation. every time they listen to their favourite song, the warner brothers know about it and send an invoice.
palladium does hurt the end user and you cannot turn it off that easily.
firstly, your OS doesn't have to support DRM in order to run on a DRM chip. if it doesn't, it's just untrusted and totally unable to play any protected media etc. (until someone cracks the protecten, which should happen much faster than microsoft/intel think.)
secondly, DRM doesn't imply closed source, and open source doesn't imply "without DRM". it would be perfectly possible to release an OS with a media player under a open source licence and just keep some cryptographic keys secret, without breaching the protection of "secure" content.