TCPA / Palladium FAQ

[Ian Miller]

Ross's (excellent) FAQ states:-
>"Pirate software can be detected and deleted remotely."

They wish.  How exactly does a TCPA machine delete a file if the owner of
the machine, suspecting the file may be dodgy, has taken the trivial
precaution of burning it onto a CD.  All I can see the machine doing is
refusing to access the file, and reporting the find next time it is
on-line.  (Okay it could be a bit more draconian like refusing to do
anything, until TCPA-central has been contacted to "sort the matter out".
However anything like that is will leaving the system wide open to DoS
attacks by someone spamming the world with pirated content and watching the
TCPA-central servers collapse under the resulting load.)

Ian

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