http://netvouz.com/url/e796b0556537eb2f71ad868c5f778f14?feed=rss Info about a link http://www.toad.com/gnu/whatswrong.html Ron Rivest asked me, "I think it would be illuminating to hear your views on the differences between the Intel/IBM content-protection proposals and existing practices for content protection in the TV scrambling domain. The devil's advocate position against your position would be: if the customer is willing to buy extra, or special, hardware to allow him to view protected content, what is wrong with that?" First, I call it copy protection rather than content protection, because "content" is such a meaningless word. What the technology actually does is to deter copying. Such technologies have a long history in computing, starting with the first microcomputers, minicomputers, and workstations. Except in very small niches, all such systems ultimately failed. Ma emmineb Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:32:59 GMT http://www.toad.com/gnu/whatswrong.html Ron Rivest asked me, "I think it would be illuminating to hear your views on the differences between the Intel/IBM content-protection proposals and existing practices for content protection in the TV scrambling domain. The devil's advocate position against your position would be: if the customer is willing to buy extra, or special, hardware to allow him to view protected content, what is wrong with that?" emmineb Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:27:29 GMT http://www.toad.com/gnu/whatswrong.html fjordaan Fri, 06 Jul 2001 22:21:29 GMT