kyleb said:That guy is really missing the big picture, and rather late to the plate as well. Here is an article from last year that goes into much better detail on what it will take to acomplish HDCP protected content playback on PCs:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1871&page=1
Interesting article.
What about this:
The PE is built on certified hardware using certified drivers, and can be invalidated by the presence of 'un-trusted' software, drivers or hardware. What constitutes unsafe software will likely be decided by Microsoft and concerned interests like the RIAA and movie industries.
Whazzat? "Untrusted drivers"? So this gets added to the WHQL process in some fashion? How does the list of trusted drivers get updated? What impact if any does this have for fans of NV beta-of-the-day?