computer privacy
June 2, 2005 5:25 PM Subscribe
Digital content control now may be possible through your PC's hardware. Officially launched worldwide on May 26, the new offerings come digital-rights-management-enabled and will, at least in theory, allow copyright holders to prevent unauthorized copying and distribution of copyrighted materials from the motherboard rather than through the operating system as is currently the case.
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Why this will never work:
Line out of computer A -> Microphone of computer B
TV out of computer A -> TV tuner of computer B
Yeah, there's re-encoding and a loss in quality, but that's usually involved in compressing for internet transport anyway. And some programs won't let you output to a TV, but then you can just use a hardware TV converter that runs right off the analog monitor output.
And if the goverment forces encryption hardware into speakers and monitors? Videocameras and microphones.
It's a battle they can't possibly win.
posted by Mitrovarr at 6:16 PM on June 2, 2005
Line out of computer A -> Microphone of computer B
TV out of computer A -> TV tuner of computer B
Yeah, there's re-encoding and a loss in quality, but that's usually involved in compressing for internet transport anyway. And some programs won't let you output to a TV, but then you can just use a hardware TV converter that runs right off the analog monitor output.
And if the goverment forces encryption hardware into speakers and monitors? Videocameras and microphones.
It's a battle they can't possibly win.
posted by Mitrovarr at 6:16 PM on June 2, 2005
Additionally, AMT also features what Intel calls "IDE redirection" which will allow administrators to remotely enable, disable or format or configure individual drives and reload operating systems and software from remote locations, again independent of operating systems.
substitute the word "hacker" for "administrator" above....
posted by TechnoLustLuddite at 6:45 PM on June 2, 2005
substitute the word "hacker" for "administrator" above....
posted by TechnoLustLuddite at 6:45 PM on June 2, 2005
Why this will never work:
Line out of computer A -> Microphone of computer B
hell with that, dude. any competent sound recorder (like audacity) will allow you to record output directly from the sound card, without having to mess around with wires and secondary computers. so as you play the file, you record it to mp3 on the same computer.
posted by Ziggy Zaga at 6:56 PM on June 2, 2005
Line out of computer A -> Microphone of computer B
hell with that, dude. any competent sound recorder (like audacity) will allow you to record output directly from the sound card, without having to mess around with wires and secondary computers. so as you play the file, you record it to mp3 on the same computer.
posted by Ziggy Zaga at 6:56 PM on June 2, 2005
Mitrovar:
Line out of computer A -> Microphone of computer B
TV out of computer A -> TV tuner of computer B
The MPAA have plans for that one too. They want legislation to ensure recording device refuses any analogue signal tagged with a copyright watermark
In the future, all thought will be billed by the hour.
posted by Popular Ethics at 7:02 PM on June 2, 2005
Line out of computer A -> Microphone of computer B
TV out of computer A -> TV tuner of computer B
The MPAA have plans for that one too. They want legislation to ensure recording device refuses any analogue signal tagged with a copyright watermark
In the future, all thought will be billed by the hour.
posted by Popular Ethics at 7:02 PM on June 2, 2005
Ziggy: Isn't that exactly what this is supposed to prevent?
Popular Ethics: It doesn't look like that's happening, thank god.
posted by Tlogmer at 7:04 PM on June 2, 2005
Popular Ethics: It doesn't look like that's happening, thank god.
posted by Tlogmer at 7:04 PM on June 2, 2005
it will happen. a few years back, some bright boys came up with the idea of erecting towers across the land and selling low power walkie-talkies as telephones. trouble is, the average schmuck would know they were just walkie talkies if anyone with a cheap scanner could eavesdrop. the lobbyists went to work, and the manufacturers cooperated, and now it's virtually impossible to buy a radio in the USA capable of tuning those frequencies. gadget geeks modded scanners for a few years, but nowadays the entire scanner is implemented on an IC and those days are gone.
posted by quonsar at 7:07 PM on June 2, 2005
posted by quonsar at 7:07 PM on June 2, 2005
Old news on MF. As I wrote before, I will never buy a microprocessor with onboard DRM, even if it's easy to crack. I'm tempted to say that I'd take whatever legal action I could to work against companies that manufacture hardwired DRM, or that I'd start my own company to manufacture clean chips, but who am I kidding? I'm a penniless programmer with no head for law or business. Even so, I'd certainly be well disposed towards offering material support to anyone who was capable of doing these things.
posted by bshock at 7:08 PM on June 2, 2005
posted by bshock at 7:08 PM on June 2, 2005
Ziggy: Isn't that exactly what this is supposed to prevent?
from what i've seen, DRM can't really prevent conventional recording practices...although popular ethics' article about hampering analog recording was news to me. i didn't realize the technology existed, so i'm no longer sure.
posted by Ziggy Zaga at 7:44 PM on June 2, 2005
from what i've seen, DRM can't really prevent conventional recording practices...although popular ethics' article about hampering analog recording was news to me. i didn't realize the technology existed, so i'm no longer sure.
posted by Ziggy Zaga at 7:44 PM on June 2, 2005
I think the expression I'm looking for is "Fuck Intel".
I'm only hoping that the MPAA and RIAA will requip all their offices with the snoop chips, so that after learning the right APIs I can sit back at home having fun reformatting the drives on their office PCs...
posted by clevershark at 8:15 PM on June 2, 2005
I'm only hoping that the MPAA and RIAA will requip all their offices with the snoop chips, so that after learning the right APIs I can sit back at home having fun reformatting the drives on their office PCs...
posted by clevershark at 8:15 PM on June 2, 2005
The recording industry term for the "line out -> line in" technique is the "analog(ue) hole". Much hooha goes on about "plugging the analog hole".
posted by hattifattener at 8:38 PM on June 2, 2005
posted by hattifattener at 8:38 PM on June 2, 2005
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That's always a good sign.
posted by Bort at 5:50 PM on June 2, 2005