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Pentium D's use DRM

Its just gets better.... This is worth the $5k I spent on overpriced Intel processors from 1985-1995. Been an AMD man since then ,except a little break with the 2.4 (can't remember if it was a,b or c) Not sure, came over with the 166 K-6. OC'ed to 200 easy, and would do 233 and was WAY cheaper (1/3rd price I think ??) than the 166 Pentium.... Was a little miffed at the 1.4 Tbird and the heat, never got one, but the XP showed up in time. Then the Intel P4, then just when I was going to give up again, in comes the A64, and thats all she wrote....
 
Intel just plain stinks. This is the same company that was going to track their processors a few years ago.

It will take somebody less than a week to crack that weak assed shit.
 
Agree, no copyright protection that i know of holds up. I really don't imagine this being different. Quite annoying none the less. But I want to know who is paying them to do this (clealy music/movie industry types.. hm or maybe AMD) and how much ? This can only cost them sales, and probably will so somebody has to be compensating, quite handsomely I would imagine.
 
Actually, anyone who wants DRM protection on any given media disc probably just pays intel something per sale of protected disc, or something similar.. makes sense now.
 
Originally posted by: mazuz
Actually, anyone who wants DRM protection on any given media disc probably just pays intel something per sale of protected disc, or something similar.. makes sense now.
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LOL, somebody has to pay Intel. There hasn't been an Intel chip in this house since 1999 other than a machine brought here for repair or spyware/virus removal.

 
AMD broke the 1 ghz barrier and sold me on their tech. I haven't looked back. Not trying to post whore, I just forgot to put in why I tossed mt P3 600 mhz and went AMD.

Intel then put too much emphasis on clocks and left out the fact that you could do the same amount of work with less mhz and less heat (see Prescott). 😀
 
Did anyone else catch this?
"Additionally, AMT also features what Intel calls "IDE redirection" which will allow administrators to remotely enable, disable or format or configure individual drives and reload operating systems and software from remote locations, again independent of operating systems. Both AMT and IDE control are enabled by a new network interface controller."
How long do you think it will take someone to hack this and start remotely formating drives all over the world?
 
remember that Intel processor id thing a while back.... eveybody freaked & after the mobo makers had an option to disable it from the bios.....

I am hoping it can probably be turned off too with a bios update.
 
Link works now. Again.

Considering how both intel and amd are members of this bs initiative, maybe y'all should start using Via CPU's from now on.

also, I havent heard jack about DRM support in a long time... it's pretty much gone totally unmentioned in the new product cycle. hopefully it's dead.
 
Originally posted by: dmens
Link works now. Again.

considering how both intel and amd are members of this bs initiative, maybe y'all should start using Via CPU's from now on.
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Bit by bit, digital freedom disappears

By Nathan Cochrane
September 17 2002
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Wow a link from 3 years ago!!!!

Anything more recent???
 
you can google, right?

if there's going to be DRM support on silicon, it'd probably be there already since it's a pretty old initiative.

also, this whole deal stinks because i find it hard to believe people would bother trying to find a hardware solution for a problem that is 100% software. i find the term "hardware DRM support" to be extremely suspicious.
 
"Moorhead, AMD's vice-president of consumer advocacy, dismisses consumer complaints that the ever-tightening noose designed to stop online piracy, known as Digital Rights Management (DRM), will erode existing rights.

But he says AMD believes that these technologies should be "opt-in" - that the user should control it - not government mandates. "

It hasn't been implemented. It isn't turned on, the tech may be there but if it isn't implemented it doesn't matter. Intel is always pulling something as I have already mentioned. 3-4 years ago they were going to keep track of your processor. It didn't work out. People screamed. If you are happy with Intel by all means stay Intel.

Now back to the circle jerk. INTEL SUCKS!!

 
How did you conclude that AMD does not have so-called support on silicon when they did not explicitly state so? and how do you know intel's "support" is turned on by default... when their rep didn't say anything about it?

Hope you got lots of lube.
 
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