ik las dit artiekel, en ik vond het erg klote. Kan iemand mij er wat meer over vertellen?
http://www.overclockers.com/tips044/
(First up schijnt de Hammer te zijn.
Stevig USA based / politiek e.d. )
"CBDTPA On A Chip"
Ed Stroligo - 7/1/02
There is a very interesting and well-done piece on some emerging technology that will affect you far more than Hammer or serial ATA or hyperthreading.
In a phrase, hardware-based digital rights management (for many, read copy protection).
The consortium of tech organizations putting this together is called the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance. Here's their membership list. Most of the big names are there. Both Intel and AMD are there (though Via and SiS are not, nor are any major CDRW manufacturers, wonder why? ).
Initially, this hardware-based system is supposed to be built into chipsets; the first ones appear to be Hammer chipsets. (See the June 24 comments at Via Hardware for some more details about that. Via and SiS not being on the list presents a rather big problem.
If this to you bears some resemblance to the old hardware dongles of the past, which could be bypassed, you may well have a point.
Eventually, though, this security/copy-protection system is supposed to be built into the CPU (see Question 15). Like Intel and AMD CPUs. It's one thing to buy a Via motherboard; quite another to buy a Via CPU.
My best guess on the timing of CPU-incorporation would be probably not earlier than .09 micron CPU, not later than .065 CPUs. I find the latter more likely, so we're talking roughly 2005.
How This Would Work, Politically
The initial link describes the technical aspects well enough. This is not a technical issue; it's a political issue.
Politically, this is a major shift of forces. The bulk of the hardware companies will jump from opposing the content providers to siding up with them with their solution to the content providers' problem.
It also seems to me the consortium views this initiative as something that can be implemented without government's blessing, though it would be nice to have to get stray sheep with the program and to provide them cover: "The government made us do this, blame them."
We'll apparently see the first equipped-mobos become available in 2003. Expect a lot of pressure to be put on Via and SiS to come up with Palladium-compatible mobos. I would also expect to see a big push to have the U.S. Congress bless this in 2003. This time around, it will be serious.
Politically, 2003 is the year to do it. It's not an election year. Security should still approvingly be in the mind of the average voter. Most of the electorate won't know about the issue, fewer will care. Of those few that do, the electorate generally has short memories, and young ones even shorter ones. Besides, they don't vote anyway.
Bet your bottom dollar on a CBDTPA II being introduced early in 2003 and a major effort made to get it enacted (not like the last time). If a CBDTPA II passes, Via and Sis will comply because if they don't, they won't be allowed to sell anymore mobos in the U.S..
If they don't, forget about U.S. government help until after the U.S. presidential elections.
Expect content producers to start making TCPA-compatible and only TCPA-compatible products in a year or so. (Any of this will only work with future product; the horse is out of the barn for past and current product). Fully expect such products to be marketed using the points made in this article, which will obscure the primary purpose of this change.
(Here's where things get a little vague. Will TCPA-compatible products, say a CD-ROM, be playable in a non-TCPA, but read-only environment? If so, that may give crackers an opportunity.)
That's what would look to be Plan A, which means the core elements would be in place by the end of 2003, and people would now have an incentive to update their machines, with most not knowing the real reason for it.
If that doesn't work out, you have Plan B, and 2005 would be the target date. Again, a government blessing would help, but the make-or-break players here would be Intel and AMD. If they hold firm and put the circuits in the CPUs, it's hard to see how this isn't a done deal, government or not.
Can This Happen?
Sure. If I had to bet, I'd bet that either Plan A or (more likely) Plan B will eventually get implemented.
http://www.overclockers.com/tips044/
(First up schijnt de Hammer te zijn.
Stevig USA based / politiek e.d. )
"CBDTPA On A Chip"
Ed Stroligo - 7/1/02
There is a very interesting and well-done piece on some emerging technology that will affect you far more than Hammer or serial ATA or hyperthreading.
In a phrase, hardware-based digital rights management (for many, read copy protection).
The consortium of tech organizations putting this together is called the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance. Here's their membership list. Most of the big names are there. Both Intel and AMD are there (though Via and SiS are not, nor are any major CDRW manufacturers, wonder why? ).
Initially, this hardware-based system is supposed to be built into chipsets; the first ones appear to be Hammer chipsets. (See the June 24 comments at Via Hardware for some more details about that. Via and SiS not being on the list presents a rather big problem.
If this to you bears some resemblance to the old hardware dongles of the past, which could be bypassed, you may well have a point.
Eventually, though, this security/copy-protection system is supposed to be built into the CPU (see Question 15). Like Intel and AMD CPUs. It's one thing to buy a Via motherboard; quite another to buy a Via CPU.
My best guess on the timing of CPU-incorporation would be probably not earlier than .09 micron CPU, not later than .065 CPUs. I find the latter more likely, so we're talking roughly 2005.
How This Would Work, Politically
The initial link describes the technical aspects well enough. This is not a technical issue; it's a political issue.
Politically, this is a major shift of forces. The bulk of the hardware companies will jump from opposing the content providers to siding up with them with their solution to the content providers' problem.
It also seems to me the consortium views this initiative as something that can be implemented without government's blessing, though it would be nice to have to get stray sheep with the program and to provide them cover: "The government made us do this, blame them."
We'll apparently see the first equipped-mobos become available in 2003. Expect a lot of pressure to be put on Via and SiS to come up with Palladium-compatible mobos. I would also expect to see a big push to have the U.S. Congress bless this in 2003. This time around, it will be serious.
Politically, 2003 is the year to do it. It's not an election year. Security should still approvingly be in the mind of the average voter. Most of the electorate won't know about the issue, fewer will care. Of those few that do, the electorate generally has short memories, and young ones even shorter ones. Besides, they don't vote anyway.
Bet your bottom dollar on a CBDTPA II being introduced early in 2003 and a major effort made to get it enacted (not like the last time). If a CBDTPA II passes, Via and Sis will comply because if they don't, they won't be allowed to sell anymore mobos in the U.S..
If they don't, forget about U.S. government help until after the U.S. presidential elections.
Expect content producers to start making TCPA-compatible and only TCPA-compatible products in a year or so. (Any of this will only work with future product; the horse is out of the barn for past and current product). Fully expect such products to be marketed using the points made in this article, which will obscure the primary purpose of this change.
(Here's where things get a little vague. Will TCPA-compatible products, say a CD-ROM, be playable in a non-TCPA, but read-only environment? If so, that may give crackers an opportunity.)
That's what would look to be Plan A, which means the core elements would be in place by the end of 2003, and people would now have an incentive to update their machines, with most not knowing the real reason for it.
If that doesn't work out, you have Plan B, and 2005 would be the target date. Again, a government blessing would help, but the make-or-break players here would be Intel and AMD. If they hold firm and put the circuits in the CPUs, it's hard to see how this isn't a done deal, government or not.
Can This Happen?
Sure. If I had to bet, I'd bet that either Plan A or (more likely) Plan B will eventually get implemented.