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Microsoft Palladium Revealed
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posted by mpawlo
on Sunday June 23, @04:33PM
from the who-is-watching-the-watchers? dept.
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Newsweek's Steven Levy has gotten a first glimpse of Palladium, Microsofts new digital rights management and passport project. Palladium is the outcome of Bill Gates' ambition to change the architecture of PCs
in order to address the concerns of security, privacy and
intellectual property. Palladium allegedly contains functionality for identification, verification, encryption, anti-virus, anti-spam, privacy safeguards, digital rights management and more. UPDATE: Computer security expert Richard Forno has published a response to the MSNBC article, in which criticizes Microsoft's efforts.
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Okay, so maybe I should read more closely...you all already knew this!
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It is pretty clear that individual rights and digital rights management are on a collision course. Ultimately, the only hope DRM has is if Congress mandates it. The entertainment industry knows this and is lobbying heavily. It goes without saying that anybody who values their own freedom should oppose DRM.
If this happens, I predict that the battles over whether it is constitutional will ultimately be decided in favor of DRM (even though I think that on the merits DRM should lose). If it gets to that point the stage will be set for the second great prohibition rebellion, because I just don't see people in a nation whose core value is freedom accepting having that freedom "managed" by Microsoft.
Internationally, DRM will spur more countries to adopt pro-open source laws, as there is no way that many coutries will accept Microsoft as the arbitor of "trust". This will happen occasionally as outright mandates or more often as preferential or exclusive government software platform policies. Oddly, I have a feeling that such moves will eventually be the deciding factor that causes DRM to fail.
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