Slightly confused (confusing?) but interesting article on content protection
Posted by Ken Y-N on January 19th, 2011 at 03:43am
An article on ZeroPaid looks at a recent announcement from Intel, specifically:
Intel is also upgrading its Wi-Di technology, which enables users to wirelessly transmit images and video from a PC to a high-definition TV. Users will now be able to stream 1080p content, an improvement from the previous 720p resolution. Users will also be able to stream protected movies from the Intel Insider feature, Regis said.
At a first read, to me that just sounds like they will have support for wireless HDMI, but the blog gets a bit of a bee in its bonnet about Canadian copyright laws and whether a TPM in terms of said law is a Technical Protection Method or a Trusted Platform Module. (I’ve got a feeling I blogged about this before, but I cannot find it.) It is the first to the best of my understanding, but the article assumes its the second – the second can support the implementation of the first – and quickly goes off down the slippery slope of DVDs that will only play on Intel chips.
It’s a bit depressing that even though the person interviewed is very knowledgeable about both the legal and technical aspects of content protection, he either consciously or unconsciously chooses to paint a Doomsday scenario.
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