Against The Tcpa

[JaVnI]

---Boycott the TCPA!----

TCPA stands for the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, an initiative led by Intel. Their stated goal is `a new computing platform for the next century that will provide for improved trust in the PC platform.' Palladium is software that Microsoft says it plans to incorporate in future versions of Windows; it will build on the TCPA hardware, and will add some extra features.

TCPA / Palladium will make it much harder for you to run unlicensed software. Pirate software can be detected and deleted remotely. It will also make it easier for people to rent software rather than buying it; and if you stop paying the rent, then NOT ONLY DOES THE SOFTWARE STOP WORKING BUT SO MAY THE FILES IT CREATED. For years, Bill Gates has dreamed of finding a way to make the Chinese pay for software: Palladium could be the answer to his prayer. THE TCPA IS A FAR MORE DIRE THREAT TO FILESHARING THAN THE RIAA AND MPAA COMBINED!

What YOU can do:

--> Visit www.againsttcpa.com

--> Go to My Kazaa (or My Kazaa Lite K++, depending on your version). Select any software you might have and right-click on them. When the context menu pops up, select "Edit Details..." At the More Options Properties dialog box, click on the "More" tab, and in the description box, paste this message in.

--> Go to the search section of Kazaa and click on "Software." Search for a popular app, such as Photoshop, and send this message to the users sharing the app.

--> Share the TCPA text file.

File: TCPA.txt
Length: 42005 Bytes, 41KB
UUHash: =NPwKw7cJ8gttgl8ndozbfepb//8=

--> IM other users about this and request that they share this message with others.

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This is a serious problem for the future! Visit the site NOW

[Gre1]

Fuck that! I won't worry myself about that type of shit and who says u have to upgrade to a newer version of windows and if it does happen people will find a way to get around it.

[RealitY]

This is quite serious if it comes to light, which it probably will.
It will even suffer shareware if I understand it completely.
Nice Effort I Imagine.

[mogadishu]

I guess whoever thought this up had just read 1984. Freaky shit if it actually happened.

[Broken]

:P All well, guess i'll just have to switch to linux.

[RealitY]

Originally posted by Broken@8 September 2003 - 07:14
:P All well, guess i'll just have to switch to linux.
Yes, this will be the simple solution I hope.

[mogadishu]

hope so.. but intel etc.. will realize that they are shooting themselves in the foot by doing this cus people will switch over.

[mogadishu]

actually we should all switch to OS/2.. best OS out there. i have it on most of my computers.

[iMartin]

Muaha...they can't make me upgrade to that bull$h!t....well, they prolly can, but I won't :lol:

[supersonic]

B)

[L0rD_S0tH]

hmmm, yes this could be bad. As someone else mentioned, though, someone will hack their way past this. Or we'll all just switch OS's. Either way works for me. P2P ever!

[RealitY]

Originally posted by L0rD_S0tH@9 September 2003 - 04:57
though, someone will hack their way past this.
What do you think you will hack, this is hardware protection, not software to my understanding. It will be most likely labled a criminal offense to tamper with the components within the computer. This is an uglier beast than you might imagine.

[L0rD_S0tH]

Originally posted by REALITY+9 September 2003 - 07:01--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (REALITY @ 9 September 2003 - 07:01)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-L0rD_S0tH@9 September 2003 - 04:57
though, someone will hack their way past this.
What do you think you will hack, this is hardware protection, not software to my understanding. It will be most likely labled a criminal offense to tamper with the components within the computer. This is an uglier beast than you might imagine. [/b][/quote]
ahhhhhh, I see. :o thats no good. :angry: