Intel pentiun D to support Microsoft's DRM @ CHIP lvl

I don't think I will ever buy a system with DRM hard coded into it. I don't pirate stuff, but the whole point of computers is freedom to program them to do whatever you want.
 
jon_k said:
I don't think I will ever buy a system with DRM hard coded into it. I don't pirate stuff, but the whole point of computers is freedom to program them to do whatever you want.
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You may not have a choice. If you have ever want a newer PC and AMD and Intel are both supporting it, you won't get a choice in the matter.
 
Sir-Fragalot said:
You may not have a choice. If you have ever want a newer PC and AMD and Intel are both supporting it, you won't get a choice in the matter.
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This is true.

If/when this happens, i will take good long look at Linux.
 
As always, someone will come around and bypass the DRM and everything will be fine. It's still very frustrating though :mad:
 
Sir-Fragalot said:
You may not have a choice. If you have ever want a newer PC and AMD and Intel are both supporting it, you won't get a choice in the matter.
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Headlines

2008

Privacy Advocates cry foul over Intel and AMD's new Digital Rights Media plans intigrated into the core hardware of the system.

In other news, Via Proccessors and chipsets set new world wide records, Launching it into the fray against its Megacorp adversaries Intel and AMD. In an astounding development to protect the rights of the computer users, Via has declared hardware DMR a violation of human freedom and is currently churning out 1 million proccessors a month out of its newly built factory in Austraillia, with plans to expand production in the works. This bold marketing plan has lead them to a massive market share, Rivaling that of Intel and AMD combined!





:D
 
Komataguri said:
Headlines

2008

Privacy Advocates cry foul over Intel and AMD's new Digital Rights Media plans intigrated into the core hardware of the system.

In other news, Via Proccessors and chipsets set new world wide records, Launching it into the fray against its Megacorp adversaries Intel and AMD. In an astounding development to protect the rights of the computer users, Via has declared hardware DMR a violation of human freedom and is currently churning out 1 million proccessors a month out of its newly built factory in Austraillia, with plans to expand production in the works. This bold marketing plan has lead them to a massive market share, Rivaling that of Intel and AMD combined!





:D
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and then the RIAA and MPAA and US Govt sue the hell out of them because thats the kind of assholes they all are.
 
I think this encryption technology may create a little niche in the PC market that hasn't been there before. The tech-savvy will demand a non-restricted system core, and the market will probably reflect that with some 3rd party chip manufacturer. Joe Schmoe won't know the difference so he will keep buying the technology from companies who have been around for years.
 
delusion_2005 said:
After that post it just wreck my interest in Pentium D. :eek:
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Kind of ironic. Intels are the best at encoding, and now embedded DRM is going to uh... damage that niche, heh.
 
Not until Longhorn, though, right? People who keep running XP should be fine?
 
That ties it. My next setup is going to be using a 915P chipset and a 6XXX processor (just so that I can avoid this bs ).

If this keeps up, pretty soon I'm going to have to ask M$ for an activation key to wipe my ass :( .
 
Dumbest. Idea. Ever.

They might actually lose customers over this.

*Makes love to his Northwood*
 
DRM didn't stop very many people from purchasing and renting DVDs and DVD players...
 
xonik said:
DRM didn't stop very many people from purchasing and renting DVDs and DVD players...
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True but, unlike the DVD format, Intel has huge competition with AMD and they can't afford to go alienating customers.

Once AMD gets more fabrication plants operational they will become a sizeable threat to Intel.
 
incomudro said:
RUN DON"T WALK!!!! TO MAC AND LINUX!
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sorry mac is allready DRMed look at "itunes". and they are quickly making it worse. they are trying to change it into "multimedia consumer" OS.

people might have to give up trying to pirate mass media crap and be creative instead.
 
GVX said:
If this keeps up, pretty soon I'm going to have to ask M$ for an activation key to wipe my ass :( .
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Great. They just got an idea cause of you.
 
GVX said:
Once AMD gets more fabrication plants operational they will become a sizeable threat to Intel.
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How could AMD beat intel without creating an alternative to x86 and convincing everyone to switch to it? Intel control's AMD's x86 production, basically.
 
Intel may control the production for now, but if the performance and progress of Intel processors continues at the abysmal, almost regressive, rate that we are seeing now, AMD may become more of a threat because the performance deferential will be so great that the major OEMs will sell AMDs to the Schmoes.
 
Komataguri said:
Wait wait.


Intel holds a copyright on x86 arcitexture? and controls how AMD uses it?
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If by "x86 architecture" you mean "x86 instruction set" than no. The courts ruled long ago that an instruction set cannot be copyrighted. However, beyond that ruling, I don't know what AMD and Intel have agreed/promised one another. There may be some other restriction from some other contract.
 
visaris said:
If by "x86 architecture" you mean "x86 instruction set" than no. The courts ruled long ago that an instruction set cannot be copyrighted. However, beyond that ruling, I don't know what AMD and Intel have agreed/promised one another. There may be some other restriction from some other contract.
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It's a contract based restriction. Basically Intel can determine to a degree how many x86 chips AMD can use. At leasts that how I understand the agreement.

Though, the California Supreme Court says a microcode CAN be copywrited.
On December 30 1994 the Supreme Court of California finally formally denied AMD rights to use the i386's microcode. Afterwards AMD and Intel concluded an agreement the details of which remain largely secret, which gave AMD the right to produce and sell microprocessors containing the microcodes of Intel 286, 386, and 486. The agreement appears to allow for full cross-licensing of patents and some copyrights, allowing each partner to use the other's technological innovations without charge. Whatever the exact details, no significant legal action has resulted between AMD and Intel since, and it evidently provided a form of 'clean break.'
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http://encyclopedia.localcolorart.com/encyclopedia/AMD/
 
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