“The US music industry’s legal clampdown on online music piracy could soon be supplemented by technical measures that will make it harder to make unauthorised copies of digital files.”
“A new set of programming standards, released by a consortium of the world’s largest software and hardware companies on Tuesday, specify methods for developing software for hardware security modules increasingly being built into many personal computers.”
“The Trusted Computing Group’s new security standards promise to shore up personal computer security by linking software to tamper-resistant hardware modules in which cryptographic keys and other tools are stored. This could be used to increase the security of files or authenticate messages.”
“A new version of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, scheduled for release in 2004, will incorporate the ability to use these hardware modules. The first computer systems to include the hardware were released by IBM in April and Hewlett Packard in May 2003.”
“Experts say the standards will enable the development of more robust Digital Rights Management (DRM) software to restrict unauthorised copying of digital files. A music file would only play on a machine if it had the correct key.”
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