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It is actually really neat how DRM tech is being reversed to benefit the consumer and privacy for once! Almost daily you read about yet another new "innocent"
by scienhack 9y ago
It is actually really neat how DRM tech is being reversed to benefit the consumer and privacy for once!
Almost daily you read about yet another new "innocent" tech being exploited and used for some corporate gain, taking advantage of the end-users. It's refreshing to see it go the other way!
- MichaelGG 9y agoTrusted computing, TPMs etc have always been about this scenario. It's just the anti DRM crowd has some people that think the end user is always the person sitting in front of the terminal, and there should never be a way to reduce that person's access.
- forapurpose 9y ago> It's just the anti DRM crowd has some people that think the end user is always the person sitting in front of the terminal, and there should never be a way to reduce that person's access. That may be extreme (if it's not a strawman), but a major problem with TPM is that there is no way to give control to the end-user, with the possible exception of customers large enough to demand hardware customization.
- jlgaddis 9y agoTPMs are similar. Initially, there was a lot of resistance to them (for fear of DRM, etc.) but over time we've realized that we can put them to good use after all.