[ale] A Palladium FAQ (from an un-Disneyed source)

[Thompson Freeman]

Remember all the aggrivation that copy protection caused ten years ago and
earlier? With this plan, aggrivation will be different, possibly worse,
and more open to disruption by both full blown terrorists and stupid human
falibility, plus the usual suspects like script kiddies. The Digital
Rights severs are going to be armored like crazy, and will be cracked
(assuming history is a guide) fairly regularly.

Plus - I question putting what amounts to a super-OS (or is that a
meta-OS?) into pure hardware. The "Fritz" chip will of necessity be very
complex, need to be small, and I'm guessing that no cpu has ever been
issued which did not suffer from bugs.

And I'm having difficulty figuring the need for bandwidth on the
networks. In the long run, this sort of system has the capacity to make
Orwell's _1984_ look like an anarchy, so tightly would most citizens be
controlled.

I'm not sure I'm pissed off, as much as I'm a)scared b)depressed. More of
the same old same old, with bigger guns...

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The harder I work, the luckier I get.
                    Lee Iacocca
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Thompson Freeman          tfreeman at intel.digichem.net


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