"Palladium" and TCPA

[Markus Kuhn]

"Axel H Horns" wrote on 2002-06-29 20:19 UTC:
> Software (including OS) mandatory requiring a TCPA-augmented hardware 
> surely can be used to enforce questionable functionalities beyond 
> those of the TCPA per se.  
> 
> As long as the users effectively have a free choice between a 
> software not requiring TCPA and other TCPA compliant software there 
> would be less worries.  

Which all boils down again to monopolies (absence of choice and
competition) being the really bad things here, not hardware-support for
copy protection.

Markus

P.S.:
As a free software advocate, I personally remain highly enthusiastic of
any proposed hardware extension designed to prevent too many people from
using Microsoft/Adobe/Oracle/etc. products. The social benefits can't
be overestimated ...

-- 
Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org,  WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>