The Scary Future of DRM

I’ve been reading startling stories about DRM, or Digital Rights Management, for quite some time now, but it hasn’t been until recently that the major PC makers (Dell, HP, IBM) started putting these TC chips into new computers. TC stands for Treacherous Computing, or as the imposing companies like to call “Trusted Computing.” This could be the seed to a much larger ploy the Corporations have to control consumers and take away their rights. I just read This very interesting BBC article that explains the current state of affairs much better than I’m going to here. A quote from the article that I must put here:

The efforts going into DRM would be much better spent building efficient distribution services, finding business models that are based on trusting your customers, and offering high quality downloads at fair prices.

Ho man they nailed it there, didn’t they…

 

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