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[FYI] Microsoft, Allies Gear to Reshape Copyright Debate
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- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 18:35:59 +0200
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Microsoft, Allies Gear to Reshape Copyright Debate
Sat Sep 7, 8:47 AM ET
By Elinor Mills Abreu
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An industry push to tighten security on
personal computers could be either the salvation of electronic
commerce or the bane of consumers, who view the Internet as their
digital information playground.
Microsoft Corp. , Intel Corp. and nearly 200 other companies from the
computer hardware, software and security industries are working on
technologies designed to protect data in computers from being
tampered with by intruders.
Maintaining that these systems are needed to impede hackers,
proponents say they could help restore law and order in a world where
digital piracy is rampant. Critics counter that the technologies are
part of an industry power-play that would end the freewheeling
culture of information-sharing that now exists over the Internet.
Either way, specialized security microprocessors and related software
being developed by members of the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance
(TCPA) would, if implemented, fundamentally shift the balance of
power between individual and corporate ownership of data -- a debate
that is already being played out in U.S. courts and Congress.
"If we're going to get content on the 'Net, somehow we're going to
have to reward the people who put it on there," said Dave Farber, an
Internet engineering pioneer and computer science professor at the
University of Pennsylvania who is an independent consultant to the
TCPA.
Others say the efforts are desperate attempts by PC and media
companies to control the next big wave of computing.
"It's a struggle between the wonks and executives," said Paul Saffo,
a director at the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, California.
"The real battle ahead is not over desktops, it's in the living
rooms. There is a flat-out race to own the video game" and computer
entertainment market.
"Microsoft would love nothing more than to be the software forge for
Hollywood," Saffo added.
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