Clarifying Misinformation on TCPA:

Hey all.

I just fonud this article and fonud it to be quite a good read- Quite interesting!

Have a read.

http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/tcpa_rebuttal.pdf

Of course they have a lot of resons to tell you what's good about it.

Cannot open the file, my TCPA says it can't open the file cause it's not registered...jk

Yes, TCPA is not DRM, but MS could abuse TCPA to force DRM in radical new way. The paper states you can't skip initialisation of the TCPA driver in windows, this works only in linux - yet.

I think only pirates have a reason to fear digital rights management.

Think on a wider basis.I'm fine as long as i get my 1 cd/dvd backup. The DRM dscribed using TCPA isnt so bad.

DRM created by Sony/Ubisoft/Crapsoft- Starforce type stuff... no. Just... no.

Thats my view.

The fear of TCPA was that of major companies having a grip on what belongs to you- something that actually hasn't happened (And in part, already has taken place- MS Update anyone?)

You don't have to be a pirate to be limited to what you can do with stuff you legally own. With DRM, no backup copies of a DVD so you can keep the original safely boxed up out of harms way (anyone with toddlers would agree that's a good idea). Thanks to DRM, in many cases you cannot run a computer game directly from a disc image file, so you get to haul your CD's along with your laptop whereever you go. Thanks to DRM, your legally bought 'protected' music files become worthless if your computer crashes and you need to reinstall the OS. Thanks to DRM you 'cannot' copy certain media, while the music industry still holds up their hand and collects a copy fee on any blank media sold in many countries.

More worrysome: The whole direction of 'trusted computing' that things are headed to can have major impacts for you and me -- if things go the way the big companies want them to (and they probably will -- after all, they have enough backing from Big Business), everything will need to be 'trusted' at some point. Nice for Microsoft, but the final nail in the coffin of small, casual developers who don't have money to go through the process of having their (free!) programs certified just so windows will trust them and allow them to run.

DRM is a very slippery slope, and is just a major inconvenience for legitimate customers. Something is very wrong when a pirate gets a *beter* user experience than a legitimate buyer.

Bang on. Thats my main concern with DRM and TCP- Want indie? Better go underground....


For games- I tend to buy them, crack them and not even use the purchased cd! why? I dont want the crap on my system spying on me.

Woah woah woah, only pirates have to worry about DRM? That kind of comment makes me want to cry with rage ;-/

There is no way that a PC user should in any way be restricted in what it is they wish to do with their computer. It's a computer, it is there to serve the user, end of flippin' story!

I do not want my PC to come up with a message stating "We regret that your mp3 cannot be transferred to your ipod because it lacks authentication" - or some such rot [if I had an ipod].

Huuuge oversimplification, I know, but seriously... don't mess with my 'puter!

"I think only pirates have a reason to fear digital rights management."


What if they had DRM before the IPod? No Ipod! Apple would never have been able to get the music industry to put their music online.

What if I have a perfectly good HDTV capable of displaying a high res picture, but it's a few years old because I was an early adopter, and it only has analog inputs? Oh well I guess I can make do with 1/4 of the normal resolution when I play a movie because Hollywood doesn't trust me! (This is true!)

What if I'm a student in a science fiction class and I want to use music from a movie in the horror movie I've filmed at home?

What about all those videos on the net which use popular music or video clips and have become a large part of our culture?

What about alternative operating systems, like Linux, which are open source, and free, and will not be allowed to play ANY DRM content as a result because it could be easily bypassed?

Why would pirates care? You'll notice they have so far had no problems circumventing even the most convoluted DRM schemes. CSS? Broken by a 14 year old Norweigen kid. Pirates don't give a flying duck about DRM, becauswe it's never, ever going to affect them. They're going to be able to play their illegal CDs in the car, and in the house, while you're going to have to be buying 2 CDs, so in effect you'll be paying for your CD and his CD. Enjoy.