TCPA / Palladium FAQ

[Roland Postle]

> 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.)

How does the owner of this machine plan to persuade their TCPA-compliant CD
burner to touch the file? Or indeed persuade any of their TCPA-compliant
CD/DVD drives to read it back. Or prevent their system deleting it once
again when it is read back.

Just speculating,

- Blazde