"In addition, Microsoft will continue to support Intel's LaGrande security architecture, Juarez said" (quote the crn article)
ive heard that tcpa became tcg mainly since ms (and a few others) did not get it their way (because of majority requirements to make decisions). adopting decisions should be easier in the case of a "wintel" security standard.
what is the difference between lagrande and ngscb? does lagrande support Windows DRMS? can ms still tell disney that their content can be distributed over a trusted wintel platform? how secure is such a system if "only" cpu and OS are collaborating?
if someone wants to share his wisdom, id appreciate a language a normal person (like,... a lawyer) can understand.
You never own the rights to the music you pay for, but rather the medium upon which it has been written. This explains why you are allowed to resell a CD. By law (and I'm not expert--this is what I understand) you own the physical media upon which the material (the rights to which you don't own) is placed.
"On-demand services are the future of entertainment delivery. CDs, DVDs, and any other forms of physical media will become obsolete," predicted Forrester analyst Josh Bernoff. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/32611.html
even a george w. bush would be able to see the connection... well, maybe not
Here's a little background for people in GSM-only land. Outside the U.S. In the U.S., providers refused to standardize their technology, claiming that GSM wasted too much bandwidth. If I remember correctly, CDMA is the leading technology, with TDMA second, and various forms of GSM (not all of them compatibile with international GSM systems) a distant third.
if you decide to provide us non-americans with some background you should do so in an accurate way. bandwidth is only one parameter when comparing telecom access technologies. for instance, cdma phones dont have sim cards which is certainly a very positive feature. you base cdma's superiority simply on basis of bandwidth (its like saying a dodge viper is a superior car than the maybach simply because it is faster).
DRMS get quite a bad reputation inhere which is certainly understandable. of course, noone likes to pay for things, but fact is that this is how our society works.
but i think it would be wrong to condemn DRMS; sure, DRMS cause legal problems mainly relating to fair usage, but those problems should put in relation to the advantages DRM bring about. it is clear that private end users primarily see DRMS as a tool which makes them eventually pay more, but from a (more important?!) business perspective, DRMS and the separation of content from the (valuable) right offers whole new business models. for instance, rights to movies can be sold to investors even before the movie is made. ex-ante fund raising is just one of the vast possibilities that DRMS can be used for.
i think once we can solve the inherent tension between fair useage and DRMS (and we will), the latter will actually be a good thing.
as for "effectiveness" and member states implementations: for instance, 95a(2)UrhG german is basically a literal translation of 6.2 eucd which itself is quite detailed. i would think that quite a few member states would stick to its wording.
in any case, css is certainly protected by the law (but not by technology). in other words, by using css end users have the right to pay and the obligation to adhere to the rules prescribed by the content holder.
"Technological measures shall be deemed "effective" where the use of a protected work or other subject-matter is controlled by the rightholders through application of an access control or protection process , such as encryption, scrambling or other transformation of the work or other subject-matter or a copy control mechanism, which achieves the protection objective. "
i read this "effectiveness" not as "effective" in a technical sense, but in a legal one; indeed very effective legal protection for the content holders since they can determine what you can do with your purchase simply by adding ANY protection mechanism.
im not quite sure i understand the discussion here. after all, tcpa or whatever it is called becomes only effective with longhorn. in other words, getting the banias (and watching two movies on the plane) wont cause you any problem as long as you dont get longhorn. the problem is that the vast majority of users dont care using m$. and as long as it is running on some 80% of all pcs, hollywood has a great trusted mass distributing platform for their content. on the other hand, they still have to cope with the problem of standalone dvd players. they cant release in the tcpa-dvd standard if no stand alone dvd player can read the media...
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ive heard that tcpa became tcg mainly since ms (and a few others) did not get it their way (because of majority requirements to make decisions). adopting decisions should be easier in the case of a "wintel" security standard.
what is the difference between lagrande and ngscb? does lagrande support Windows DRMS? can ms still tell disney that their content can be distributed over a trusted wintel platform? how secure is such a system if "only" cpu and OS are collaborating?
if someone wants to share his wisdom, id appreciate a language a normal person (like, ... a lawyer) can understand.
"On-demand services are the future of entertainment delivery. CDs, DVDs, and any other forms of physical media will become obsolete," predicted Forrester analyst Josh Bernoff. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/32611.html
even a george w. bush would be able to see the connection... well, maybe not
if you decide to provide us non-americans with some background you should do so in an accurate way. bandwidth is only one parameter when comparing telecom access technologies. for instance, cdma phones dont have sim cards which is certainly a very positive feature. you base cdma's superiority simply on basis of bandwidth (its like saying a dodge viper is a superior car than the maybach simply because it is faster).
DRMS
but i think it would be wrong to condemn DRMS; sure, DRMS cause legal problems mainly relating to fair usage, but those problems should put in relation to the advantages DRM bring about. it is clear that private end users primarily see DRMS as a tool which makes them eventually pay more, but from a (more important?!) business perspective, DRMS and the separation of content from the (valuable) right offers whole new business models. for instance, rights to movies can be sold to investors even before the movie is made. ex-ante fund raising is just one of the vast possibilities that DRMS can be used for.
i think once we can solve the inherent tension between fair useage and DRMS (and we will), the latter will actually be a good thing.
P.S. please keep cursing to an acceptable level.
as for "effectiveness" and member states implementations: for instance, 95a(2)UrhG german is basically a literal translation of 6.2 eucd which itself is quite detailed. i would think that quite a few member states would stick to its wording. in any case, css is certainly protected by the law (but not by technology). in other words, by using css end users have the right to pay and the obligation to adhere to the rules prescribed by the content holder.
Art 6(2) EUCD
"Technological measures shall be deemed "effective" where the use of a protected work or other subject-matter is controlled by the rightholders through application of an access control or protection process , such as encryption, scrambling or other transformation of the work or other subject-matter or a copy control mechanism, which achieves the protection objective. "
i read this "effectiveness" not as "effective" in a technical sense, but in a legal one; indeed very effective legal protection for the content holders since they can determine what you can do with your purchase simply by adding ANY protection mechanism.
im not quite sure i understand the discussion here. after all, tcpa or whatever it is called becomes only effective with longhorn. in other words, getting the banias (and watching two movies on the plane) wont cause you any problem as long as you dont get longhorn. the problem is that the vast majority of users dont care using m$. and as long as it is running on some 80% of all pcs, hollywood has a great trusted mass distributing platform for their content. on the other hand, they still have to cope with the problem of standalone dvd players. they cant release in the tcpa-dvd standard if no stand alone dvd player can read the media...
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requires knowlegde about tcpa and the simpsons...
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(dont know why there is a space in "three"; erase it and it should work)