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Re: [fsfc-discuss] 'DRM'/'TPM' + another thought
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Russell McOrmond |
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Re: [fsfc-discuss] 'DRM'/'TPM' + another thought |
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Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:42:24 -0500 |
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On 12-02-18 10:54 AM, Rudolf O. wrote:
The problem is that TPM is advocated by Intel, Microsoft, Apple and
others who want to control your hardware and software. The term is
their marketing term for something they control.
I think we are throwing the technology baby out with the dirty legal
bathwater.
The problems we are talking about are legal in nature. While I know
there is a tendency in the technical community try try to use technology
to route around law, I believe that is counter-productive. We must
apply legal fixes to legal problems. I believe we in the technical
community have a moral obligation to get involved in politics and law to
fix these bugs, rather than seek to hide ourselves from laws which will
continue to harm the rest of society.
The Trusted Platform Module is a useful technology for protecting the
rights of computer owners, if only the law were there to protect rather
than in too many cases prohibit the rights of computer owners.
Anyone other than the owner controlling keys should be illegal: a
legal problem.
Conditioning the supply of publicly published copyrighted content on
allowing a "remote attestation" of a computer to verify that it is *not*
controlled by the owner should be illegal: a legal problem (and solved
through policy proposals embedded within the IT property rights petition
http://c11.ca/petition/ict )
--
Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
Please help us tell the Canadian Parliament to protect our property
rights as owners of Information Technology. Sign the petition!
http://l.c11.ca/ict
"The government, lobbied by legacy copyright holders and hardware
manufacturers, can pry my camcorder, computer, home theatre, or
portable media player from my cold dead hands!" http://c11.ca/own
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] "FSF Canada", Russell McOrmond, 2012/02/15
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] 'DRM'/'TPM' etc, David C Dawson, 2012/02/16
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] 'DRM'/'TPM' etc, Russell McOrmond, 2012/02/16
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] 'DRM'/'TPM' + another thought, David C Dawson, 2012/02/17
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] 'DRM'/'TPM' + another thought, Russell McOrmond, 2012/02/17
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] 'DRM'/'TPM' + another thought, David C Dawson, 2012/02/18
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] 'DRM'/'TPM' + another thought, Michael Faille, 2012/02/18
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] 'DRM'/'TPM' + another thought, Rudolf O., 2012/02/18
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] 'DRM'/'TPM' + another thought,
Russell McOrmond <=
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] 'DRM'/'TPM' + another thought, Russell McOrmond, 2012/02/18
- [fsfc-discuss] UEFI, Bill C-11, and our provincial governments (Was: 'DRM'/'TPM' + another thought), Russell McOrmond, 2012/02/18
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] 'DRM'/'TPM' + another thought, David C Dawson, 2012/02/18
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] 'DRM'/'TPM' + another thought, Darcy Casselman, 2012/02/18
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] 'DRM'/'TPM' + another thought, Michael Faille, 2012/02/19
- [fsfc-discuss] Eric S. Raymond's open letter - Re: SOPA/PIPA/DRM/TPM, David C Dawson, 2012/02/27
- Re: [fsfc-discuss] SOPA/PIPA/DRM/TPM - another analogy, David C Dawson, 2012/02/27
Re: [fsfc-discuss] "FSF Canada", Richard Stallman, 2012/02/16
Re: [fsfc-discuss] "FSF Canada", Richard Stallman, 2012/02/16