http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...ips_to_secure_streaming_movies?taxonomyId=142 This shit is hella retarted Um no thanks, I think I will stick to my reasonably priced AMD chips
Yeah, this is bullshit. Guess it's time we teach Intel a lesson again. Remember the chip they released that would send information about your PC to Intel online, what was that called again? And AMD has some interesting stuff in the pipeline too - the Bulldozer desktop CPU, their ultra-portable chip that trounces the shit out of Intel's Atom, etc.
also if you have a laptop with SB chip in it, and it gets stolen... call intel and they'll shut your laptop down and report the gps location. theres all kinds of big brother shit in these new chips.
Are you guys for real? 1. Who's going to even buy anything from WB Shop or Best Buy's cinema now with Netflix streaming and movie pirating that we all do. 2. No one here is going to use the onboard video card built into the cpu's, we are going to buy our own discrete video cards. Even if the cpu's built in video card supported DX11, it would run like ass, like it does with DX10 im sure. 3. For Torx, sounds like a good feature to me, as long as you have an option to turn it on or off which I wouldn't be surprised if there was a BIOS (EFI, whatever) option for it.
Even if thatll be the case, i'm still not going to be supporting a company who likes to think that way. I'm sure they'll be getting millions of dollars in revenue for even doing something like this from WB and BBC.
Aren't you being a bit alarmist? Intel's CPUs have had Trusted Execution Technology, which is part of the Trusted Computing platform, for a while. This new technology will be used to enable companies to distribute streaming content safely. It won't affect you if you don't subscribe to those companies' services or buy their products. You'll still be able to rip DVD and Blu-rays using the different utilities that are available out there. I remember people decrying the end of the world when Vista came out, thinking they wouldn't be able to play their MP3s because of Microsoft's DRM technology. :roll: As for Intel GPUs lacking DX11 support... nothing new here. Intel has always been behind the competition (AMD & NVIDIA) in this department. If and when Intel adds DX11 support to its GPUs, it will be nothing more than a bullet point for marketing purposes. Let's stop the paranoia, please.
When they say: "there's nothing to worry about" or "you can trust me"......then run like hell the other way. I don't trust anyone who makes my decisions for me. That philosophy has gotten me through some really hairy shit and I'm not going to abandon it because some multibillion dollar corporation uses the word: "trust". Anti pirating is the motivation, it translates to billions in lost revenue. It's advantageous to spend 25 billion bux to save $25,005,000,000 (1/5000 return) when we're talking the size of numbers that're being dealt with. Sure they're going to try to sell it as a good thing, would you put up with it if they didn't?
^^ lol. reminds me of the movie "Knight and Day" where he warned her of the "s words" "You're safe with us", "Everythings secure".. when in fact youre not.
Hackers and crackers will always exist, and they're on the consumer's side (jailbreaking, for example). All these secure computing initiatives haven't prevented me from enjoying content on any of my devices.
Misleading title is misleading. It's not like they are blocking you from streaming from netflix they are just making some lame DRM that only applies to that crappy Warner deal. Is it a step in the wrong direction? Who knows. I doubt this will effect a single user on this board tho.
Have fun dropping another $1k when your laptop gets stolen. I had a previous job where we recovered several laptops with the lojack version of that all the drm shit can be skipped over, there is very little that is mandatory. The tpm stuff is already there, you just probably aren't using it (go look in your windows services - oooo tpm, scary shit)
When I first heard about this I was a bit upset, thinking about all the possible DRM shit they could do with this and really screw with us. But then I thought about what they're *actually* using it for. It's for exclusive content. You wouldn't go purchase an XBox 360 and assume it'll play PS3 discs. It won't, they're proprietary, as are the streaming videos that the new chips decode. It's a step in the wrong direction, I do believe that, but it's not the end of the world yet.
