I know that most people don't know what tcpa is, but they should. If you are viewing this you are using a computer, tcpa will affect you if you do nothing.
click here http://www.againsttcpa.com/what-is-tcpa.html
I know that most people don't know what tcpa is, but they should. If you are viewing this you are using a computer, tcpa will affect you if you do nothing.
click here http://www.againsttcpa.com/what-is-tcpa.html
Last edited by pyro; 17-12-2003 at 07:13 AM.
If you can't be bothered reading it, this is a very very short and somehow inacurate description.
The tcpa is a chip, which will be installed on your computer, without it you will not be able to use your computer. Tcpa will prevent you from using certain software or hardware. Suppose you have £50 and you want to buy something new for your computer, you find that something and it cost less then £50 so you can buy it.
However, it is not accepted by the tcpa, so you won't be able to use it, instead you will have to buy the one accepted by the tcpa, which will probably cost a lot more.
This is just an example of what might happen, free software will not be avalable, the big companies will benefit while us, the consumer, will not be able to do anything about it.
and how likely is this going to happen?...
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TBH I think the information given above is slightly OTT. TCPA is not going to prevent you from running software AFAIK. That may well happen well down the line, but as it is the spec does not really infer that.
I think there are a lot of myths that need to be debunked about the TCPA and there are a lot of scare stories written about it. I agree that on the whole it is probably a bad thing but some quarters are just spreading FUD like it's never been spread before...
EDIT. As usual, the wikipedia page is an excellent source of information. Read and inwardly digest
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truste...tform_Alliance
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It does sound a bit too much like BS to be honest. Who is going to enforce this? Who says that we HAVE to do this? Why wouldn't there be any free software.
The points just don't make any sence.
Regarding the other page, I thought the Palladium was dropped?
The US government will want to pass a law baning anything without tcpa, as long as tcpa gives them the cash they want. Anyway, lets wait and I see, I hope it doesn't happen.
These points are way to extreme and dramatic. They are a very broad view of what 'may' happen, a system like this is no worse than things that organisations like Sainsbury's do every second of the day now :- building up an entire profile of your life simply because you collect points on your nectar card...From http://www.againsttcpa.com/what-is-tcpa.html
- The informational self-determination isn't existing anymore, it's not possible to save, copy, create, program, ..., the data like you want. This applies for privates as for companies
- The free access to the IT/Software market is completely prevented for anyone except the big companies, the market as we know it today will get completely destroyed
- Restrictions in the usage of owned hardware would apply
- The liberty of opinion and the free speech on the internet would finally be eliminated
- The own rights while using IT-technologies are history
- The national self-determination of the der particular countries would be fully in the hands of the USA
- Probably the world would break into two digital parts (Countries that express against TCPA
It is quite possible that whoever the certificate authority (USA) for this is that they could decide effectively on what is allowed and what is not allowed to run on machines by not providing a certificate. MS are behind a big drive at the moment to have linux knocked on the head for infringement of copyright laws as a result of software copyrights, I daresay that if secure computing were here already they would have invalidated linux certs already, if they do that then there is no lengthy dicsussion with EU about it. COMPLETE CONTROL is the problem.
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