Intel denies DRM charges
p2pnet.net News:- Chipzilla says its new Pentium D processor and 945 Express chipsets don’t have DRM.
Reports said Intel’s new dual-core chips were loaded with digital rights management technology.
Among them, Computerworld in Australia quoted the company’s Australian technical manager Graham Tucker as saying DRM was part of the line-up, says Computer Business Review.
But, “Kari Skoog, a US-based Intel spokesperson, told ComputerWire the article was incorrect and that the Pentium D and its chipsets do not have unannounced, embedded DRM technology,” it states.
“Tucker reportedly told Computerworld at the processors’ launch in Australia that ‘[The] 945g [chip set] supports DRM, it helps implement Microsoft’s DRM … but it supports DRM looking forward.’ He also said the DRM technology could not be retrospectively used with files that were not compatible, according to the article.”
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See:-
loaded – Intel’s Pentium D out today, p2pnet, May 27, 2005
Computer Business Review – Intel denies DRM in Pentium, June 1, 2005
June 2nd, 2005 at 6:13 pm
Oh yea… like I really believe that… I’m still never buying another processor from them again…
Just leave DRM completely out of your hardware people!!!!!!
June 2nd, 2005 at 6:48 pm
It’s bad enough we have to deal with DRM infested CD’s & DVD’s. Now we have to watch out for DRM infested PC’s ?
June 2nd, 2005 at 10:34 pm
Here is a quote from this web page:
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/institutes/bclt/drm/trans/drm-2-28-p2.htm
I attended some of the formative meetings, and at one
meeting, one of the principles, the founding principles, of this
Trusted Computing Association, TCPA, after we were
discussing secure boot ….he again said, “It’s important to
prevent the public from thinking that we are building a DRM
system.” After two or three such remarks, I started to wonder
what is going on here; what are these people really up to.
During a break, I took aside one of the other founding members
of the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, in fact, a fellow
who works for a well known, large vendor of operating
systems and office productivity software, and asked him, “So
fill me in; what’s going on here? Why are we here today?” And
he told me, “Listen, it’s very simple; our operating system
platform, on a general peer purpose PC, currently does not
have server content available, such as for example high quality
streaming video, that our customers demand. The content
owners, or I should say the accumulators and distributors,
have told us that they will not make this content available until
such time that we have these features available on our
platform. We don’t have much of a choice, we have to solve
this problem one way or another.”
Do feel free to give this better exposure as a story. Intel are a bunch of lying cowards. The company has well documented research efforts aimed at in-chip DRM, and the “ide redirection” sounds very similar to the hollings bill designed to allow rightsholders to remotely destroy people’s data.
June 3rd, 2005 at 11:35 am
The key word in their “no DRM” claim is here:
“…do not have _unannounced_, embedded DRM technology,” it states.
So what is announced?
Trusted Computing Initiative is newspeak for DRM…