What do you think would have happened if Apple never entered the digital music market?
WMA would have been declared the audio "standard", and you can bet that Microsoft would have used the DRM in WMA and WMV as an entry point to shove us TPM down the throat.
The plan was, when WMA digital players would be everywhere, to eliminate standard cd audio and replace it with WMA DRM version. There wouldn't be any "rootkit" needed to hide the non-protected files as they wouldn't exist.
The RIAA with the collaboration of MS would have then worked to eliminate MP3 support everywhere and eventually, the next step would have been to use TPM to try to close any holes in their DRM.
Apple doesn't use TPM for iTunes and the iPod. Mac OS X doesn't use a serial number nor does it need a registration process.
Apple shows no signs of moving towards Trusted Computing except for the use of the TPM chip to prevent losing hardware sales to people wanting to install OS X on their Dell.
On the other hand, Windows Vista security model seems to be designed with Trusted Computing in mind and the only thing preventing them to move forward is the iPod and iTMS success.
Apple makes Trusted Computing cool to who? I don't think any Mac user ever thought TPM was a cool chip, and I don't see Apple promoting its use any more than MS.
The way you try to spin things and accuse Apple of doing something that Microsoft is clearly more guilty off seems so typical of MS FUD.
The real reason why we must continue to support a commercial opposition to Microsoft Windows tied formats like WMA is incidentally the one you use against Apple. Good way to manipulate public opinion. At best, people will now think that Apple and MS are on equal foot regarding TPM when the reality is otherwise.
Even if you could establish that Apple is as evil as MS, it wouldn't change the fact that it's MS that is in a position to impose Trusted Computing, with their stable 90%+ monopoly on computer OSes.
MS don't need any Apple provided coolness to impose TPM, it just needs an excuse, but it can't use the planned WMA DRM excuse, because of the iPod AAC/FairPlay competition.
Competition is good, competition between DRMs is even better.
What do you think would have happened if Apple never entered the digital music market?
WMA would have been declared the audio "standard", and you can bet that Microsoft would have used the DRM in WMA and WMV as an entry point to shove us TPM down the throat.
The plan was, when WMA digital players would be everywhere, to eliminate standard cd audio and replace it with WMA DRM version. There wouldn't be any "rootkit" needed to hide the non-protected files as they wouldn't exist.
The RIAA with the collaboration of MS would have then worked to eliminate MP3 support everywhere and eventually, the next step would have been to use TPM to try to close any holes in their DRM.
Apple doesn't use TPM for iTunes and the iPod. Mac OS X doesn't use a serial number nor does it need a registration process.
Apple shows no signs of moving towards Trusted Computing except for the use of the TPM chip to prevent losing hardware sales to people wanting to install OS X on their Dell.
On the other hand, Windows Vista security model seems to be designed with Trusted Computing in mind and the only thing preventing them to move forward is the iPod and iTMS success.
Apple makes Trusted Computing cool to who? I don't think any Mac user ever thought TPM was a cool chip, and I don't see Apple promoting its use any more than MS.
The way you try to spin things and accuse Apple of doing something that Microsoft is clearly more guilty off seems so typical of MS FUD.
The real reason why we must continue to support a commercial opposition to Microsoft Windows tied formats like WMA is incidentally the one you use against Apple. Good way to manipulate public opinion. At best, people will now think that Apple and MS are on equal foot regarding TPM when the reality is otherwise.
Even if you could establish that Apple is as evil as MS, it wouldn't change the fact that it's MS that is in a position to impose Trusted Computing, with their stable 90%+ monopoly on computer OSes.
MS don't need any Apple provided coolness to impose TPM, it just needs an excuse, but it can't use the planned WMA DRM excuse, because of the iPod AAC/FairPlay competition.
Competition is good, competition between DRMs is even better.
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