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Where art thou Stuckists? Intel reveals share denial PC scheme
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 11/09/2002 at 09:02 GMT
It was a schizophrenic Intel that faced the world at its Developer Conference in San Jose yesterday. In the morning keynote it touted its new multimedia "adaptor" platform, with glossy lifestyle videos explaining how our "digital media experience" would become "more convenient".
In the afternoon it explained why it was embedding digital certificates into the hardware - and a spokesman from VeriSign Inc., which is partnering with Intel in this great adventure, could hardly believe his luck.
On Thursday, when most of the press will have departed, it will host a session discussing a variety of share-denial technologies being funded by, or developed in, Intel's labs. These include our old favorite CPRM - incorporated into DVD-Audio players from Panasonic (DMR-E20) and Pioneer (DVR-3000) - along with DTCP (Digital Transmission Content Protection, which encrypts air to ground, or cable transmissions over FireWire) and HDCP (High Bandwith Digital Content Protection), which encrypts the display transmissions from your computer to your monitor.
What an astonishing loss of courage from America's greatest technology company - and we mean that most sincerely.
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Bootnote: We shamelessly borrowed the term 'Stuckist' from the art movement of the same name, which can be found here. We don't really have anything in common - except that we're all stuck if this madness ensues. The term was coined by Charles Thomson.