tcpa

[Z!re]

Aga, yes there is an option to turn it off... it is voluntary to have TC turned on.

Having gas in your car is also voluntary.


Imagine you run a small firm, you must be able to contact your customers (law firm maybe, just an example) Imagine you turn TC off.

Yo then get an email from one of your customers... it's total garbage, encrypted with a 2048bit RSA key because he's on a TC system.

Now, what do you do? If you have enough money you buy a TC license, if you don't.. well.. though on you, you'r out of business.

[KiZ]

This sounds like a total nightmare come true... I cant believe that this TCPA is serious. I am shocked. If the government approves, or whoever has to approve of the laws of the TCPA, then it would be catastrophic for the millions of coders and small businesses, etc out there. This is really beginning to sound like a nightmarish story just like 1984. I feel sick now.
:barf:

Something has to be done about this!!! :x

[Zack]

1984?
Explain.

[Zack]

I just read it more thoroughly.
Wow. This has to be stopped. It would mark the end of programming for everybody that doesn't work for an enormous company.

[Z!re]

1984=A book written by George Orwell (I think) in short:

Big brother, cameras everywhere, total controll. No freedom.




The danger with this is just like Zack: It's good, it would take away pirace etc.

My goverment reasons the same way: TCP is good, it will remove piracy.

Yes thats true, but it CAN be used to gather personal information. If you write a document it can be directly traced to you, and you'r computer.

You can even blacklist computers, making everything that origins from that computer unreadable by everyone else.

Freedom of speech..................

[oracle]

not spam, don't lock please read

When you say that I know it's spam . Next time, don't use capitals for your subject titles.

[Sterling Christensen]

Microsoft had an email address set up for questions about tcpa, and I had a short discussion with them.

All that about paying a fee to write Windows software is a myth. Windows would still be able to run regular apps. No fee would be charged for regular software.

However, if you'd like you write software that is unhackable, and securely isolated from the other software running on the computer (including the user), then you might have to pay a fee.

That's what it's about. It will mean more secure online banking etc, but it will also mean unbreakable Digital Restrictions (er I mean "Rights") Management applied to software. It's probably called Trusted Computing because it makes it so that software companies can trust your computer.

Also, hell will freeze over before MS would allow a compatible open source implementation for Linux. Email, music, everything will be encypted and Linux won't work with any of it, so Linux (and any other OS Microsoft decides not to allow) will die.

[Zack]

not spam, don't lock please read

When you say that I know it's spam . Next time, don't use capitals for your subject titles.

Acronyms are usually capitalized: PHP, HTML, CSS, not Php, Html or Css.

Bye-bye Linux. :wink:
Sterling, what's that address?

[Z!re]

All that about paying a fee to write Windows software is a myth. Windows would still be able to run regular apps.

Yes you can run regular apps, but your computer will be in "unsafe" mode, so you can't run.. let's say QB and you'r new version of word.. or internet browser... at the same time.

QB is a non-TC program, thus it's insecure.
The new Word is a TC app, thus secure.

There is NO WAY POSSIBLE to run both at the same time.

(The applications/programs are just examples)


Do not for a second beleive that MS (and the rest of the companies) are doing this because they want to remove piracy and help users. Ohh No.. they want to make money, and what better way to do it then this:

Get users dependant.
Get irreversible software out (TCP)
Raise prizes.


Did you know that Bill said that MS market strategy for China (a major country regarding piracy) is to get people dependant on their software then get a new release (TCP) out to dominate them.
(link)

Let's say your company Muffa (a major company with over 2000 emplyees, all trained in the use of windows) gets presented with the ultimatum: Either buy our TCP product or be unable to communicate with the rest of the TCP world.

Do you think they would reeducate their emplyees to Linux? (and not really change anything) or buy the new TCP Windows?


MS says: hey look, we are releasing the source for TP, it's not harmfull, no hidden agendas, we are heroes

Well, DUH, they are required by law to distribute the source (link)



(argh, I've lost the links, look around /. and www.againsttcpa.com to find them. If anyone do, please post them.)

[Agamemnus]

Bottom line is TCPA has some good ideas but the implementation of those ideas is basically what you'd expect from a profit maximizing company.