On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:33:34 -0400
gilson redrick
LinuxJournal, Oct.2002: Heather Mead, senior editor: "We are seeing more and more clearly that Hollywood has the money and the desire to turn the Internet into a super-regulated, privacy-invading, content-management system."
I think this is what Palladium is all about. They want to have something in each computer that acts like a "cable-box" content lock. When cable modems and fiber-optic home feeds become common-place, they want to make sure you have to pay to view their content. I don't see why they don't do this external to the computer in a separate blackbox. I guess they figure that programmers are smart enough to decode any scrambling scheme with their computers......so build the descrambler right into each processor. I can see the FBI confiscating computers because you have that "new Chinese processor" that allows you to watch first run movies without paying. Just like they do now with illegal cable boxes. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation