Yup. It's been true to some extent for some time. Vista is significantly more onerous than XP about this stuff, but still not as bad as they wanted to make it.
What they originally wanted was a law that mandated every motherboard, every hard drive, everything, have a little chip on it that checks with the OS constantly for a clearance code, and watches every process in the CPU - basically hardwiring DRM into every computer made, no matter what OS was actually installed. And of course, it being hardwired, it wouldn't work with an OS that didn't have an authorization code....
Yup. Now they've backed off on that to where Intel is trying to make hardware that will do that, but it doesn't look like it's going to be mandated.
So "rogue" hardware (like, say, every piece currently for sale) will still exist, but there will be safeguards (a la X-Box) for a lot of stuff to keep you from using it easily for unintended purposes.
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Date: 27 Apr 2007 01:03 (UTC)What they originally wanted was a law that mandated every motherboard, every hard drive, everything, have a little chip on it that checks with the OS constantly for a clearance code, and watches every process in the CPU - basically hardwiring DRM into every computer made, no matter what OS was actually installed. And of course, it being hardwired, it wouldn't work with an OS that didn't have an authorization code....
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Date: 27 Apr 2007 14:03 (UTC)So "rogue" hardware (like, say, every piece currently for sale) will still exist, but there will be safeguards (a la X-Box) for a lot of stuff to keep you from using it easily for unintended purposes.