Intel's plan for bringing SL 'rights' to real life...

From Boing Boing... Intel's setting up a DRM scheme with an 8 million dollar liability if you build a product using it and someone hacks it.

I guess that's one way of implementing "NO MOD/NO COPY/NO TRANSFER". Maybe SL's rights model isn't so bad after all?

https://idf:spring2006@www35.cplan.com/cbi_export/PS_DHCS004_278830_125-1_FIN_v1.pdf

Yep. The next generation of computing is doomed. Better stock on up pre-Trusted hardware and keep it in a vacuum-sealed vault.

You could theoretically reconstruct a 3d model from just a series of screenshots. There's just no way to stop that. Even in a very extreme case with all the hardware and software crippled to death, it would still be possible to make a scripts to move the camera to the required places and then film the computer monitor with a digital videocamera connected to another computer that could then reconstruct 3d models from that.

Screenshots?

If you're using a compartmentalised mode workstation, and you take a screenshot, any classified applications don't show up. This is OLD technology.

Microsoft's "Trusted Video Path" is designed to allow applications to know whether there's anything listening between them and the monitor, so you can't even plug an electronic screen grabber in the middle... it involves video cards with secure keys and encrypted video signals.

And they're already talking about having the camera refuse to take a picture when looking at a watermarked image. There's a frigging bill requiring this in progress RIGHT NOW.

And, yes, these are REALLY crippled systems, but then I never imagined that people would accept a system as restricted as Windows XP... so I'm not so sure this won't happen.