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[Red Squirrel]

What's Going On:

In January 2003, Intel, Microsoft, the RIAA and the MPAA announced their intention to force Palladium and TCPA into every personal computer on the planet. Palladium and TCPA are a different kind of DRM, worse than even the most invasive of previously proposed "content control" systems.

Palladium and TCPA would hardwire your home computer so that these four entities and their partners would be able to run processes on your computer, entirely outside your control, indeed, without your knowledge.

Below we answer some questions about DRM, Palladium, TCPA, and the boycott.

New Yorkers for Fair Use

What is DRM?

DRM is the political, legal, contractual, economic, hardware, and software infrastructure designed and intended by a loose alliance of cartels and monopolies to take away your right to own and privately use a computer. No full DRM exists in the world today, though pieces of DRM have been successfully enacted into law and tiny bits of DRM hardware and software have been placed in some home movie playing and recording devices. Every single piece of DRM is meant to help attain the objective of the anti-ownership alliance: to get control of every personal computer in the world.



More info: http://www.nyfairuse.org/action/palladium/...m.boycott.xhtml



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