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August 30th, 2005, 08:46 AM
p2pnet.net News:- Bill and the Boyz are bending over backwards to make sure Hollywood is happy with Vista, the next version of Windows, says CNET News.
“Microsoft believes it has to make nice with the entertainment industry if the PC is going to form the center of new digital home networks, which could allow such new features as streaming high-definition movies around the home,” it says.
Or as professor Ed Felten put it much earlier in the month, “Law-abiding people be paying more for PCs, and doing less with them, because of the Hollywood-decreed micromanagement of graphics system design.”
Nor will PCs be alone with “reinforced pirate-proofing”. Similar rules will apply to other devices so they’ll be able to play back the studios' most valuable content, Microsoft executives say, according to CNET.
“Indeed, assuring studios that content will have extremely strong protection is the only way any device will be able to support the studios' planned high-definition content, the software company says.”
'Stutter in the video'
In Freedom to Tinker, Felten says a recent Microsoft white paper details the planned output content protection in Vista.
"It’s a remarkable document, illustrating the real costs of Hollywood’s quest to redesign the PC’s video hardware and software," he says. “The document reveals that movie studios will have explicit veto power over what is included in some parts of Vista. For example, pages 22-24 describe the ‘High Bandwidth Cipher’ which will be used to encrypt video data is it passes across the PC’s internal PCIe bus.
“Hollywood will allow the use of the AES cipher, but many PCs won’t be able to run AES fast enough, leading to stutter in the video. People are free to design their own ciphers, but they must go through an approval process before being included in Windows Vista. The second criterion for acceptance is this: "Content industry acceptance: The evidence must be presented to Hollywood and other content owners, and they must agree that it provides the required level of security. Written proof from at least three of the major Hollywood studios is required."
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http://p2pnet.net/story/6078
“Microsoft believes it has to make nice with the entertainment industry if the PC is going to form the center of new digital home networks, which could allow such new features as streaming high-definition movies around the home,” it says.
Or as professor Ed Felten put it much earlier in the month, “Law-abiding people be paying more for PCs, and doing less with them, because of the Hollywood-decreed micromanagement of graphics system design.”
Nor will PCs be alone with “reinforced pirate-proofing”. Similar rules will apply to other devices so they’ll be able to play back the studios' most valuable content, Microsoft executives say, according to CNET.
“Indeed, assuring studios that content will have extremely strong protection is the only way any device will be able to support the studios' planned high-definition content, the software company says.”
'Stutter in the video'
In Freedom to Tinker, Felten says a recent Microsoft white paper details the planned output content protection in Vista.
"It’s a remarkable document, illustrating the real costs of Hollywood’s quest to redesign the PC’s video hardware and software," he says. “The document reveals that movie studios will have explicit veto power over what is included in some parts of Vista. For example, pages 22-24 describe the ‘High Bandwidth Cipher’ which will be used to encrypt video data is it passes across the PC’s internal PCIe bus.
“Hollywood will allow the use of the AES cipher, but many PCs won’t be able to run AES fast enough, leading to stutter in the video. People are free to design their own ciphers, but they must go through an approval process before being included in Windows Vista. The second criterion for acceptance is this: "Content industry acceptance: The evidence must be presented to Hollywood and other content owners, and they must agree that it provides the required level of security. Written proof from at least three of the major Hollywood studios is required."
Read the Rest Here:
http://p2pnet.net/story/6078