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more on 2 on FROM INTEL -- responding to continuedmis information on IP
From: "David Farber" <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 06:05:40 -0500
_______________ Forward Header _______________ Subject: RE: [IP] more on 2 on FROM INTEL -- responding to continuedmisinformation on IP Author: Marc <marcaniballi () hotmail com> Date: 9th June 2005 4:48:31 am I am shocked that people who watch this industry are not aware of the meaning of "support." Support is not a technical term - it is marketing-speak. If 'Intel "supports" DRM', that means that they actually DO NOT HAVE DRM technology. That's what the marketing folks want the target market (MPAA/RIAA) to think/believe. It MAY mean that they have some hooks in the instruction set that COULD be used by DRM, or that the instruction set has a flexible architecture which could support the later addition of DRM, or in extreme cases, has no DRM potential at all, but then we all know that NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE, and therefore they COULD potentially support DRM if someone threw enough money and time at the problem. In these contexts, support actually means "does not/may never have," as opposed to its more expected connotation of "may have with little effort/change." Much like virtual means "not real;" notice that technology marketers have transformed the meaning of virtual to mean "almost real," or even so far as to mean "better than real." "Virtually all users see massive productivity gains!" = 1 user saw massive productivity gains (possibly, but not likely due to the use of the product). Marc Aniballi - A genius is simply the first person to point out the obvious. -----Original Message----- From: owner-ip () v2 listbox com [mailto:owner-ip () v2 listbox com] On Behalf Of David Farber Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 1:30 AM To: Ip ip Subject: [IP] more on 2 on FROM INTEL -- responding to continued misinformation on IP Begin forwarded message: From: Bob Drzyzgula <bob () drzyzgula org> Date: June 8, 2005 11:04:15 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: "Whiteside, Donald M" <donald.m.whiteside () intel com> Subject: Re: [IP] FROM INTEL -- responding to continued misinformation on IP On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 07:21:19PM -0400, David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: "Whiteside, Donald M" <donald.m.whiteside () intel com> Date: June 8, 2005 7:01:36 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: responding to continued misinformation on IP Dave, I have followed the IP discussion with growing concern, as the 'thread' is based on an incorrect assertion that Intel has designed- in embedded DRM technologies into the Pentium D processor and the Intel 945 Express Chipset family. This is not accurate. We are working with many application vendors (including those that offer DRMs) that are designing their products to be compatible with the Intel platforms. While we believe that DRMs are bringing new and exciting digital media experiences to our customers, Intel did not embed DRM technologies into the Pentium D and Intel 945 Express Chipset family. Donald Whiteside VP Corporate Technology Group Intel Corporation
Dave, But then one just has to wonder: What, exactly, was Intel talking about in Australia? According to Julian Bajkowski, reporting for Computerworld Today, Mr. Graham Tucker, an Intel employee, "publicly confirmed Microsoft-flavored DRM technology will be a feature of Pentium D and 945." Mr. Bajkowski quotes Mr. Tucker as stating "[The] 945g [chip set] supports DRM, it helps implement Microsoft's DRM ... but it supports DRM looking forward." Elsewhere in that article, Mr. Bajkowski claimed that "Intel said it is embedding digital rights management within in its latest dual-core processor Pentium D and accompanying 945 chip set," but Mr. Tucker himself does not appear to have been quoted as having himself used the word "embedded". [1] Later, Computerworld Today Australia released a retraction which stated "The Intel Pentium D Processor and the Intel 945 Express Chipset family do not have unannounced embedded DRM technologies". But this item also includes the statement "Many Intel products today support several existing copy protection or content protection technologies." [2] After this second item, of course, any long-time sufferer of press releases would conclude that the Pentium D and 945 chipset merely embed pre-existing DRM technologies of which we had merely missed the announcements. Now Mr. Whiteside assures us that "Intel did not embed DRM technologies into the Pentium D and Intel 945 Express Chipset family." However, this still leaves us with the word "support" [3], as in "support several existing copy protection or content protection technologies", and we just can't help but wonder what is meant by this. "Support", of course, could be as simple as providing an instruction set in which the DRM technology may be implemented. But this seems awfully generic -- surely this must be true of virtually any modern processor architecture, and it would be pretty darned lame for Intel to have made a fuss over it in the way that they have if that's all that's going on. Thus, "support" must mean something more than merely providing a modern instruction set but something less than "embedded". I can see why Mr. Whiteside does not want to engage in a debate, because this is quickly turning into a game of "twenty questions" [4], and I expect that were we to have honest and forthcoming answers from Intel, your readership would likely win -- I believe we can even safely skip the canonical breadbox question. --Bob Drzyzgula [1] <http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,121027,00.asp> [2] <http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23708> [3] It could also suggest that the DRM is embedded in some standard Intel componant other than the Pentium D or 945, but we'll just set that aside for the moment, since they were reportedly talking about these two devices specifically at the event in question. [4] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty_Questions> Begin forwarded message: From: "B.B." <ip () bear is-a-geek com> Date: June 8, 2005 7:47:25 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] FROM INTEL -- responding to continued misinformation on IP Dave, He seems to be side-stepping the issue completely on this. I think that this 'thread' is not really based on the inaccuracies of the embedded technologies in previous chips. I tend to read that the concerns of this 'thread' is the ultimate control of information on computers which will lock out users of other platforms access to information and prevent individuals from producing their own 'entertainment' media. If Mr. Whiteside can directly address the issues of content control and how it would affect users of other computer platforms (read NOT Microsoft), then I would begin to take his positions more seriously. Especially, I want to know what is this 'exciting digital media experience ' to which he is referring. Exciting for whom? On Wednesday, 2005-06-08 at 19:21 -0400, Mr. Whiteside wrote: ----- Dave, I have followed the IP discussion with growing concern, as the 'thread' is based on an incorrect assertion that Intel has designed- in embedded DRM technologies into the Pentium D processor and the Intel 945 Express Chipset family. This is not accurate. We are working with many application vendors (including those that offer DRMs) that are designing their products to be compatible with the Intel platforms. While we believe that DRMs are bringing new and exciting digital media experiences to our customers, Intel did not embed DRM technologies into the Pentium D and Intel 945 Express Chipset family. ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as marcaniballi () hotmail com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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