Re: [OT] DRM OS

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 20:52:30 EST


http://www.lsilogic.com/techlib/marketing_docs/consumer/ACF394.pdf

Merry Christmas --

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Chris Friesen wrote:

> Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 01:15:48AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > > CPU(crypto)<->Memory(crypto)<->Framebuffer(crypto)
> > > ata(clean)<->diskcontroller(crypto)<->Memory(crypto)<->CPU(crypto)
> > > scsi(crypto)<->diskcontroller(crypto)<->Memory(crypto)<->CPU(crypto)
> > > CPU(crypto)<->Bridge(crypto)<->Memory(crypto)
> > >
> > > Just watch and see!
> >
> > Why would crypto help at all?
>
> That's just the point! The hardware manufacturers are going to implement the
> crypto so that only valid digitally signed files can be played on that hardware,
> and there will be crypto at every step to try and prevent people from getting at
> the unencrypted bytestream.
>
> They want to keep us from doing cd/mp3 or DVD/DivX type conversions.
>
> Chris
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Andre Hedrick
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