If you purchased your computer between the year 2000 and today, chances are that your computer has "Trusted Computing" technology built onto the motherboard. What this means for the consumer, is that your computer is using Digital Rights Management, whether or not you -- the end user -- chooses to abide by International Copyright Laws.
This article describes the Trusted Computing technology, and addresses the benefits, as well as the pitfalls of having such technology built into your computer.
The control that is given to the powers that be is downright scary.
At least today, the computing industry, the government, the law, and the entertainment conglomerate have not exercised their power to censor, or remove content that sits on hard drives across the world. But it would be very easy for them (with a few keystrokes) to delete any pirated document that sits on your computer.
And that's just the beginning.
Read the article, read 1984, then sit and consider what digital rights management means to you. Big Brother is Watching You.
Thursday, August 04, 2005
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