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Anything with TPM won't get my dollars.

I can manage my own rights (digital or otherwise), thank you. I do not need my hardware or software to manage them for me. Especially software that can go above Copyright law to enforce technically what is otherwise legally unenforceable terms on the one-sided contracts of adhesion otherwise known as EULAs. Courts (i.e. humans) decide what is enforceable, not machines.

And with the conspiracy going on (allegedly, every new computer system is going to have TPM... although I highly doubt that will actually happen), I am perfectly happy keeping my current hardware.

People like No_Axe are perfectly willing to spend their money on TPM-enabled hardware. After all, it fulfills whatever their needs happen to be. But considering that TPM provides very little benefit to me (the user), can restrict my activities, and provides various large companies and their trade associations power over my own equipment, I will pass. Note that "restricting my activies" has nothing to do with what is legal or not. I can be trying to do something entirely legal, perhaps even legally protected-- but not be able to do it with TPM because it "goes against the commercial interests of the TPM master." TPM and computer chips do not understand the law-- they only understand what the so-called content owner has encoded.

In the realm of Copyright, the law clearly states that the copyright holder has a lot of leeway-- but even the copyright holder does not have the right to absolutely dictate every use (or even, every reproduction) of the copyrighted work. And outside of copyright, TPM can be applied contrary to laws like wiretapping/legal surveillance, whistleblowing, reverse engineering, corporate malfeasance, and a whole lot of issues. TPM is simply a technology that steers society in the wrong direction.

Cheers!

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