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Canadian Lover:
It seems like a lot of people have been asking the difference between DMCA and TCPA. So, one and for all, Here's the definions:

TCPA

--- Quote from: Wikipedia ---The Trusted Computing Group (TCG), successor to the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance (TCPA), is a controversial initiative led by AMD, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Sony, and Sun Microsystems to implement trusted computing.

TCG's original major goal was the development of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM), a hardware intellectual property block or integrated circuit that conforms to the trusted platform module specification put forward by the Trusted Computing Group and is to be included with computers to enable trusted computing features. TCG-compliant functionality has since been integrated directly into certain mass-market chipsets.
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--- Quote from: Ross Anderson's Trusted Computing FAQ ---The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) is an alliance of Microsoft, Intel, IBM, HP and AMD which promotes a standard for a `more secure' PC. Their definition of `security' is controversial; machines built according to their specification will be more trustworthy from the point of view of software vendors and the content industry, but will be less trustworthy from the point of view of their owners. In effect, the TCG specification will transfer the ultimate control of your PC from you to whoever wrote the software it happens to be running. (Yes, even more so than at present.)
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Can you trust your computer?
Trusted Computing Group official site
AgainstTCPA
Ross Anderson's TCPA FAQ

DMCA

--- Quote from: Wikipedia ---The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a controversial United States copyright law. The act criminalizes production and dissemination of technology that can circumvent measures taken to protect copyright, not merely infringement of copyright itself, and heightens the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet. Passed on May 14, 1998 by a unanimous vote in the United States Senate and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on October 28, 1998, the DMCA amended title 17 of the US Code to extend the reach of copyright, while limiting the liability of Online Providers from copyright infringement by their users.
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Wikipedia DMCA article
Electronic Frontier Foundation's DMCA Archive
US Copyright Office's summary of the DMCA

Hops this helps newbies :)

muzzy:
Oh dear god NO at the definition of trusted computing there! That FAQ is also crap. The real problem isn't the technology, the problem is completely different from TCPA. TCPA is good stuff, DMCA (and in EU, EUCD) is what makes its applications a bad thing. But that doesn't apply to just implementations using TCPA, these laws make a lot of other things equally uneasy.

WMD:

--- Quote from: muzzy ---TCPA is good stuff, DMCA (and in EU, EUCD) is what makes its applications a bad thing.
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So what's an example of "good" TCPA?

Canadian Lover:

--- Quote from: muzzy ---Oh dear god NO at the definition of trusted computing there! That FAQ is also crap. The real problem isn't the technology, the problem is completely different from TCPA. TCPA is good stuff, DMCA (and in EU, EUCD) is what makes its applications a bad thing. But that doesn't apply to just implementations using TCPA, these laws make a lot of other things equally uneasy.
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Look, it's an anti-TCPA forum so of course its going to be slanted.

muzzy:
Sorry for the slow responses, I don't check here often, been busy nowadays. (I suppose you've seen me linked from boingboing, sysinternals, etc)

TCPA would make remote server management securely a lot more fun, as it'd be significantly harder to own the system in a way that can't be noticed. It's common in the linux world for a server to be owned and sshd switched to a version that logs passwords. With TCPA, you could have your linux system where this kind of attack is simply impossible to do, because you could authenticate against isolated code...

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