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Se7en:
Paladium will never work. The hardware industry has NO interest in implementing it. nVidia for example, make about half the gaming silicon out there, both GPUs and chipsets. They would be shooting themselves in the foot if they introduced paladium. Most motherboard manufacturers also do graphics cards, and high end gaming motherboards as a lucrative sideline, so they wont do it either.

As for adding it to the cpu? get lost. If iether of the big 2 did it, they would be handing the entire home market to the other on a silver platter.

The entire performance hardware sector of the industry relies on illegal software. If gamers and home users didnt steal software, they would never be able to afford the gaming upgrade cycle.

If palidium WERE ever implemented, it would drive software prices down to practically nothing, because every expensive program would be competing against a free open source equivelent.

The entire industry knows this. Even microsoft knows that their market share would nosedive if copy protection were perfect. Microsofts only real asset is their monopoly on the consumer OS. If they loose that, they will go the way of apple.

Its smoke and mirrors, nothing more. Nobody has the slightest intention of actaully implementing this in any meaningful way.

est:
even if they did there would always be people who didn't, and the vendors that did take it on would probably drop it fairly quickly (or make it optional) when the ones that didn't take it on started to gain a larger market share.

most people want to be in control of their property.  it's a wacky concept, i know!

Samari:
well the problem is that as far as the software/music/movie industries are concerned you don't own any of their products, you pay them and they let oyu use them.

Addius:
se7en: from what I remember AMD, Intel and VIA have all decided to join the tcpa effort.. I don't know about transmeta or those Chinese x86 processors but your choice of x86 CPU's are growing thin.

And no, prices would probably stay pretty high even if it was implemented, otherwise it would already have been cheaper.

Do I need to add that most new DAPs supports the WMA DRM? The fact is that for the customers that doesn't dable in pirating software and such, this is actually a good thing.

Perhaps a new thread dedicated towards DRM/TCPA and such would be better if someone wants to continue to discuss it though. Sorry about this Threatis.

Schmung:
You think thats lame?

linky to slashdot article

Sorry sir, you cannot wathc this DVD on your PC as your monitor is not sufficiently DRM'd. Fuck that shit.  Bridge too far and all.

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