It seems from this article that perhaps MS already had worked out how to do copy protection with Palladium, or at least thinks it possible contrary to what was said at USENIX security:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26651.html > [Palladium related job advert...] Our technology allows content > providers, enterprises and consumers to control what others can do > with their digital information, such as documents, music, video, > ebooks, and software. Become a key leader, providing vision and > industry leadership in developing DRM, Palladium and Software > Licensing products and Trust Infrastructure Services. "control what others can do with [...] software. [...] develop DRM [...] and Software Licensing products". Also again shows that Palladium is quite centrally a DRM platform, which is kind of obvious from the design, and anyway from the naming of the associated patent "DRM-OS". Adam ----- Forwarded message from "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 08:13:48 -0400 To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "R. A. Hettinga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: MS recruits for Palladium microkernel and/or DRM platform http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/26651.html MS recruits for Palladium microkernel and/or DRM platform By John Lettice Posted: 13/08/2002 at 10:23 GMT Microsoft's efforts to disassociate Palladium from DRM seem to have hit their first speed bump. Some voices within the company (and we currently believe these voices to be right and sensible) hold the view that Palladium has to be about users' security if it's to stand any chance of winning hearts and minds, and that associating it with protecting the music business' IP will be the kiss of death. So they'll probably not be best pleased by the Microsoft job ad that seeks a group program manager "interested in being part of Microsoft's effort to build the Digital Rights Management (DRM) and trusted platforms of the future (Palladium)." [...] ----- End forwarded message -----
