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All of the information contained within this post complies with the terms and rules of the forum. I am posting links to multiple pages of interest containing factual information on DRM and Trusted Computing please make yourselves experts on this topic by reading all of the links then make your decision. The utterly horrible and rediculous nature of this situation must be made public. Check out this summary of trusted computing: AgainstTcpa-about Digital Video Restrictions:Electronic Frontier Foundation-Video Restrictions Here is a little animated movie on trusted computing: Trusted Computing-Movie And another animated movie on DRM: Electronic Frontier Foundation-Corruptibles Audio Flag: "currently being considered in the House as the Audio Flag Act (H.R.4861) and the Senate as part of the Telecommunications Reform process (S.2686), as well as the PERFORM Act in both houses (H.R 5361/S.2644.)" BroadCast Flag: "in the current telecommunications reform bills (such as S.2686)" DTCSA: Digital Transition Content Security Act (H.R. 4569) Here's more info on the Broadcast Flag: OpenCrs-Congressional Research Reports for the People 1 . Perform Act of 2006 (Introduced in Senate)[s.2644.IS] 2 . Perform Act of 2006' . (Introduced in House)[H.R.5361.IH] 1 . Audio Broadcast Flag Licensing Act of 2006 (Introduced in House)[H.R.4861.IH] 2 . Communications, Consumer's Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006 (Introduced in Senate)[s.2686.IS] 1 . Digital Transition Content Security Act of 2005 (Introduced in House)[H.R.4569.IH] Search Bill Text for the 109th Congress (2005-2006) The RIAA show the nature of their organization: Recording Industry vs. The People Here's a quote from the wiki on High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection: "HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc players will allow content providers to set an Image Constraint Token (ICT) flag that will only output full-resolution signals using HDCP. If such a player is connected to a non-HDCP-enabled television set and the content is flagged, the player will output a downsampled 960x540p signal. Most high-definition television sets currently in use in the United States are not HDCP-capable, and this would initially negate some of the key benefits of HD-DVD and Blu-ray for those consumers. Movie studios are apparently in agreement to not include the ICT flag on any HD DVDs or Blu-ray Discs until at least 2010, or possibly even 2012.[1] In the United States the Federal Communications Commission approved (PDF file) HDCP as a "Digital Output Protection Technology" on August 4th, 2004 despite its known flaws. The FCC's Broadcast flag regulations, which were struck down by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, would have required digital output protection technologies on all digital outputs from HDTV signal demodulators. Congress is still considering legislation that would implement something similar to the Broadcast Flag. Analog outputs from digital receivers do not require output protections, but the analog output must be limited to a resolution of 480p, which effectively limits sets with analog input to non-HD resolutions. The HDCP standard is more restrictive than the FCC's Digital Output Protection Technology requirement. HDCP bans compliant products from converting HDCP-protected content to full-resolution analog form, presumably in an attempt to reduce the size of the analog hole. On January 19, 2005, the European Industry Association for Information Systems (EICTA) announced that HDCP is a required component of the European "HD ready" label. Microsoft has announced that their next operating system release, Windows Vista, will support this technology in the context of computer graphics cards and monitors." Here is the link if you would like to check it out: Wiki for HDCP Here is another good resource for Digital Rights Mismanagement: Open Rights Group Here is a blog entry about a statement the RIAA made where they voiced concerns that DRM could potentialy harm a critical Infrastructure and get someone killed: Freedom to Tinker Blog I thought I would share a new site(new to me) I found with many links to articles, other sites on DRM, and just the largest amount of DRM information I have seen so far: EPIC Take a look a Senator Stevens latest version of the telecom reform bill: Electronic Frontier Foundation Microsoft Research DRM talk EDIT: clarified the topic title - tain