echelon@free.fr wrote:
(can we anymore speak about "owner"?..)
We can and we must, if we want to own anything at all.
Don't get tricked into merely consuming services and products; take ownership and shape your reality.
echelon@free.fr wrote:
But what has Netflix (or Sony, or the entertainment industry in general...) to LEGALLY gain by strongarming Intel/AMD to keep ME/PSP activated on all x86 platforms (not only consumer ones!..)?
Philipp Stanner wrote:
I don't get it, too. ME has nothing to do with what you can do with your machine and what it can perform.
Even if 90% of users use their machine for multimedia purposes...
Follow the money. What drives Intel sales? We can't know. Who are the strongest partners officially? That would be Microsoft (with Windows) and ODMs/OEMs. Intel serves them, by law.
I guess that consumer devices significantly outnumber office devices. That's where the content industry comes into play.
MSFT wants UEFI Secure Boot, so that OEMs are not required to deliver security.
Content industry wants PAVP, so that hardware owners can not legally access unecrypted versions of the content.
ME is Intel's answer to both those requirements and a few more, as described pretty clearly in the PSTR[1] book.
And the DMCA and EUCD legal foundations align (un?)surprisingly well with the technical implementation details.
//Peter