DRM=Digital Rights Management.
Leo Laporte from TechTV's The Screen Savers has compiled a list of the various ways that business wants to control YOUR computer through Digital Rights Management. It's a very informational read. You can see the power point presentation on his website at
http://www.leoville.com/mt. Below is the text presentation regarding the compiled information.
1. Technology without a mission is just a toy?play time is over.
2. Government and private industry want your computer to obey them, not you.
3. Private Industry Initiatives:
Trusted Computing Platform Alliance(Compaq, HP, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft)
Palladium aka Next Generation Secure Computing Base
4. (The next five slides are from Lucky Green?s Defcon presentation on TCPA, August 3, 2002 ,
http://c y p h e r p u n k s . t o)
5. TCPA Membership Profile
CPU: Intel, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Motorola
BIOS/Chips: Phoenix/Award, American Megatrends (AMI), National Semiconductor
Security: VeriSign, Wave Systems, RSA Security, Check Point, Certicom, Trend Micro, Symantec, Tripwire, Crypto AG [NSA]
Applications: Microsoft, Adobe (and 170 other ISVs)
Systems: HP, IBM, Dell, Gateway, Fujitsu, Samsung, Toshiba
6. Quiz: How will the Law Help TCPA Stifle Competition?
Application vendors intend to wrap their file formats with DRM.
7. Consequences of Ubiquitous Digital Rights Management
Makes it illegal to create interoperable software in the U.S.
Subjects authors of interoperable software to penalties of up to $500,000 and 5 years in prison (and double that for subsequent offenses).
The law is already on the books: Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
8. Software Authors? Choices
Do not create interoperable software.
Spend 5 years in prison.
9. Use of TPM?s is Voluntary
?One thing I can guarantee is that [Palladium] will be 'off' by default, an opt-in technology.? -- Stuart Okin, Security Officer, Microsoft, United Kingdom
Using gasoline in a car is an opt-in technology
10. Palladium definitions from Free Software, Free Society by Richard Stallman
?Security? does not mean protecting your machine from things you do not want, it means protecting your copies of data on your machine from access by you in ways others do not want.
?Attack? doesn't mean someone trying to hurt you, it means you trying to copy music.
?Malicious code? means code installed by you to do what someone else doesn't want your machine to do.
?Spoofing? doesn't mean someone fooling you, it means you fooling Palladium.
11. Government Initiatives:
DMCA
HR 5211 The Berman Bill
S 4058 The CBDTPA
DARPA?s Total Information Awareness
12. Happy Birthday
Written in 1893
Copyright renewed in 1934
Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act of 1998 protects it until 2030
AOL-Time Warner earns $2 million a yea
?The public must defend the public domain.? - Larry Lessig
13. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
Universal garage door openers
Unauthorized toner cartridges (Lexmark)
ReplayPlanet and AVS Forum have removed sections on extracting video
Apple vs OWC
HP threatens security org for revealing flaw in Tru64
Illegal to fast forward through commercials in DVD
Equivalent of banning Xerox machines and VCRs
There is no VCR for streaming media
14. HR 5211 - The Berman Bill
?Amends Federal copyright law to protect a copyright owner from liability in any criminal or civil action for impairing, with appropriate technology, the unauthorized distribution, display, performance, or reproduction of his or her copyrighted work on a publicly accessible peer-to-peer file trading network, if such impairment does not, without authorization, alter, delete, or otherwise impair the integrity of any computer file or data residing on the computer of a file trader.?
15. Records show [Howard L.] Berman received at least $186,891 from the entertainment industry during the 2001-02 election cycle?Including $31,000 from the Walt Disney Co. and $28,050 from AOL-Time Warner Inc. (AP)
16 . The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act(or the Consume But Don?t Try Programming Act)
sponsored by Fritz Hollings
SEC. 5. PROHIBITION ON SHIPMENT IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE OF NONCONFORMING DIGITAL MEDIA DEVICES. (a) IN GENERAL- A manufacturer, importer, or seller of digital media devices may not--(1) sell, or offer for sale, in interstate commerce, or (2) cause to be transported in, or in a manner affecting, interstate commerce,a digital media device unless the device includes and utilizes standard security technologies that adhere to the security system standards adopted under section 3.
17. Act Now
EFF
http://action.eff.org
Public Knowledge
http://www.publicknowledge.org
TCPA/Palladium FAQ
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
EPIC?s Palladium FAQ
http://www.epic.org/privacy/consumer...palladium.html
Larry Lessig
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/lessig
source:
http://www.leoville.com/mt
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