[vorbis] An intresting article

[Caleb]

Yup i was wrong a bit.

But it was said a few months that some kind of a linux support will be
available (i think it was on activewin.net or smth)

Anyways, im sticking to winxp.. fuck palladium and the tcpa.

I can't believe it that Intel agreed to this shit!

<p>--- Patrick Mauritz <oxygene at studentenbude.ath.cx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 08:16:19AM -0800, Caleb wrote:
> > Ok let's clear a few things up, Palladium is a chip that's planted
> into
> > intel's and AMDs new proccessors, and will be activated in
> Microsoft's
> > upcoming OS( LongHorn ).
> and now let's stop the FUD spread by notcpa.org and their horror-FAQ
> 
> the chip is the "product" of tcpa (actually it's only a spec you can
> download
> without restrictions), where most of the consumer electronic
> companies
> (including intel and amd, but microsoft as well) participate.
> this chip is supposed to provide several crypto services.
> 
> palladium is a wanna-be windows subsystem which is currently cooked
> together
> by microsoft to make use of the services provided by the tcpa chip
> (also called
> "fritz chip", after sen. fritz hollings, you know, the guy who's in
> bed with
> mickey mouse all the time). with palladium they want to ensure that
> they can
> trust the customers, who destroy it all the time by ruining all those
> small,
> cosy media companies by entering there with big ships, damaging
> everything
> just to get the cds and stuff...
> 
> so as long as you're windows free, there's no way to get palladium on
> your stuff.
> maybe the x86 architecture will be tcpa-only in the future (let's see
> what transmeta
> does, or via - building a tcpa-free x86 provides a new competition
> base against
> intel and amd, and I haven't seen any of those on the member list of
> the tcpa), 
> so you'd have to go with something else. hopefully it's less broken
> than the x86 stuff
> 
> while tcpa _might_ have uses, even the other tcpa-participants are
> concerned about the
> bad effects of microsoft's plans with palladium
> 
> > Audigy2 has DRM and it simply blocks you from recording when
> listening
> > to DVD-Audio! 
> or any .wma stream you downloaded from the sites of those small and
> cosy
> companies I mentioned above...
> 
> > A petition about Palladium: http://www.petitiononline.com/tcpa1/
> not sure who created that, but it makes the same mistakes as the
> notcpa.org people,
> mixing up tcpa and palladium..
> 
> 
> oxygene
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