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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (44560)1/1/1999 10:18:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (2) of 1576816
 
Cirruslvr; As I read it they were going to place some flash eeprom inside the case and this would allow each to be individually programmed with speed, secure ID code etc and even an encryption method which would allow individual signatures to be generated to be used via public keys to make a unique software key so that the sofware vendor could be sure to release one key for one payment and be sure it could be used only on one machine. Any number of software packages could exist in parallel(there may be a limit....?depends on the flash size?)
Since it would be fast and could also download into fast cache it could work on the fly with acceptable overhead.
It would work like the dongles you have seen, often in series, but they are slow and can be defeated.

I suspect that if this becomes universal then software piracy would vanish(unless defeated?) and a lot less software would be used and all machines would have to have intel CPUs, crafty eh?

Software vendors would need two versions during a transition period. Expensive math or circuit analysis programs now dongled would go to the new method in a heartbeat.

And AMD would vanish, or live on other software. This is a situation that would be software driven with a hardware solution. I am not sure if it will be patentable, as it is just embedding a dongle within the CPU, and that will not fly, but Intel is sure to surround it with a picket of copyright and patent protections if they can. Might catch the eye of the DOJ and they may be forced to licence it at a reasonable price?

Bill
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