Re: BILL and BIG BROTHER
From: ef_hutton@hotmail.com
Date: 07/08/02
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From: <ef_hutton@hotmail.com> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 16:45:47 -0500
When you own and operate windows, the most valuable asset you have is a
restore cd from your vendor.
"RJ Martin" <mvrjmartin@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:13de801c2269f$8ea44120$37ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA13...
> I just downloaded WmP 7.1 update and you know what , the
> mp3's I ripped from my extensive CD collection failed to
> play any MP3's I could play them with real player, and
> musicmatch jukebox, but I had to go into my registry and
> delete every instance of WMP to get it to play mp3's
> again. BE CAREFUL THIS HOTFIX CANNOT BE UNINSTALLED. To
> me this is a little to much of big brother Bill and the
> paranoid music corp's controlling and dictating and
> removing my free use of my home PC, a little 1984ish if
> you ask me. This is not the first time a windows update
> hosed my pc, win98se , i installed IE 6 and that was a non
> installable disaster that again led me to reimage my PC.
> The music and entertainment industry tried to do the same
> garbage to the audio and video tape industry years ago.
> EVERYONE write BILL and Senator Fritz Hollings (D) SC and
> tell Bill and the GOVERNMENT to please stop trying to
> erode our personal freedoms in technology. Please read the
> following
>
>
> Microsoft Is At It Again
>
> If reports I've read are true, Bill isn't waiting for the
> next edition of Windows (Longhorn?) to implement the
> beginnings of his "non-functional, secure computer
> initiative" or whatever it is called. The computer
> industry is under severe pressure from the government and
> industry groups to take many of the copying and recording
> capabilities out of computers, in order to
> protect "copyrighted content".
>
> Toward this end, Bill is offering a new Windows Media
> Player patch, which is intended to fix the 3 large
> security holes in the player. But when you look at the
> end-user license agreement, you'll see a notice
> about "automatic (compulsory) future patches" that reads
> like this:
>
> "You agree that in order to protect the integrity of
> content and software protected by digital rights
> management ('Secure Content'), Microsoft may provide
> security related updates to the OS Components that will be
> automatically downloaded onto your computer. These
> security related updates may disable your ability to copy
> and/or play Secure Content and use other software on your
> computer. If we provide such a security update, we will
> use reasonable efforts to post notices on a web site
> explaining the update."
>
> So there it is in print, straight from Microsoft. Just
> like the introduction to the Outer Limits, they can now
> take control of your system. They can install
> debilitating "patches" that will "secure" your system
> from "digital rights infringements", meaning no more MP3
> ripping.
>
> Want Windows security? Give your machine over to Bill,
> and he'll take care of it. Permanently.
>
> My question is, how long can Bill keep this kind of crap
> going before he starts to drive significant numbers of
> users away from Windows. He is hoping you're addicted,
> and that you can't or won't switch to Linux. Let's hope
> that he has overestimated his stranglehold on computerdom
>
>
> and If this garbage keeps up there are other perfectly
> fine media players to use if I can't play mp3's that I rip
> for my own personal use from my own cd collection. WHO IS
> THE CUSTOMER HERE????
>
> IRate MS customer
> be wary of WINDOWSUPDATE.COM
> It's sort of like the intro to the Outer Limits]
> we have now taken control of your PC and there is nothing
> you can do!!!!!! $%^holes
>
>
> Palladium and the "Fritz Chip"
>
> You all should know about Senator Fritz Hollings, and his
> tireless attempts to make PCs incapable of copying music
> files or running "unauthorized content". The Trusted
> Computing Platform Alliance" or TCPA, is a hardware and
> software based system for preventing computers from doing
> many of the things they are now capable of. Microsoft,
> AMD, Intel and many other companies say they are now
> working very hard to integrate TCPA features into hardware
> and software, including future versions of Windows.
>
> At the heart of TCPA is a new chip added to motherboards,
> which have been affectionately dubbed "Fritz chips" after
> the good Senator. But there is a double meaning here,
> since you can expect computers based on TCPA technology to
> go on the fritz far more often than their non-TCPA
> counterparts. Eventually, Intel and AMD say they will
> incorporate TCPA into future processors. Lucky us.
>
> Palladium is the software end of the business, and will be
> built-into future versions of Windows. The basic idea is
> that the Fritz chip will constantly check the machine
> state, and the "authorizations" for the OS and each
> application on the machine. The OS will only boot if
> nothing is "amiss", that means no "unauthorized components
> or content". The spin they are putting on this draconian
> move is that "PCs won't necessarily get faster, just more
> secure".
>
> Is that what computer owners want? Slower computers that
> can't copy MP3 files without paid authorization? I don't
> think so, and I doubt that talk about "secure computing"
> will change many minds. So the question is, will folks
> run out to buy a "Fritz chip" computer, or will they shop
> around for Fritz-less options? My guess is the later.
> However, most computer users are far from techno-savvy, so
> if they get bombarded with propaganda about TCPA making
> their computers secure from hackers, maybe the IT industry
> will be able to bamboozle large numbers of casual computer
> users. But the relatively smaller community of power
> users will certainly not go quietly into this good fight.
> So the next question is, will there be "Fritz-less"
> computer manufacturers that specifically sell only systems
> that have no TCPA components or operating systems? What
> will become of Linux as Microsoft moves completely
> to "Palladium", especially if the internet becomes TCPA-
> ified?
>
> The bottom line is this. Computer and software makers are
> desperate to lock down the ability of modern computers
> until they are nothing more than paid content providing
> systems. This is not what computers were made for, they
> were made to be multifunctional, programmable devices with
> almost unlimited capabilities. Capabilities that the MPAA
> (motion picture assoc. of America) and RIAA (recording
> industry assoc. of America) want eliminated ASAP.
>
> Finally, will TCPA create a black market for Fritz-less
> motherboards, or will it just make the last, fastest,
> Fritz-less computers the most popular on earth? I can
> imagine a big run on the last round on non-TCPA hardware
> as soon as it becomes known that all motherboards after a
> certain date must have the Fritz chip installed.
>
>
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