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Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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I know that most people don't know what tcpa is, but they should. If you are viewing this you are using a computer, tcpa will affect you if you do nothing.

click here http://www.againsttcpa.com/what-is-tcpa.html

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    If you can't be bothered reading it, this is a very very short and somehow inacurate description.

    The tcpa is a chip, which will be installed on your computer, without it you will not be able to use your computer. Tcpa will prevent you from using certain software or hardware. Suppose you have £50 and you want to buy something new for your computer, you find that something and it cost less then £50 so you can buy it.
    However, it is not accepted by the tcpa, so you won't be able to use it, instead you will have to buy the one accepted by the tcpa, which will probably cost a lot more.

    This is just an example of what might happen, free software will not be avalable, the big companies will benefit while us, the consumer, will not be able to do anything about it.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Yeah I know what it is. I've had the same thing in my sig for quite a while. TCPA = not good.

    There is a crack for TCPA/Palladium but not many have hold of it and new cracks won't be released until TCPA has been firmly established. Like everything computer related.. there will always be a flaw and exploit available.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by pyro
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    The tcpa is a chip, which will be installed on your computer, without it you will not be able to use your computer. Tcpa will prevent you from using certain software or hardware. ...

    Not entirely true. The TCPA (Trusted Computing Platform Alliance) is an organisation initially founded in 1999 by Compaq, HP, IBM, Intel and Microsoft. However, more high rolling computer firms have joined the "collective" and they include Adobe, AMD, Fujitsu-Siemens, Gateway, Motorola, Samsung and Toshiba.

    The chip you are talking about is known as TPM (Trusted Platform Module) or what the IT bods round the world are calling the "Fritz-Chip." These chips will get inserted into every piece of hardware you can imagine, gfx cards, hard disks, motherboards the works. What the chips will do, is ensure that every PC round the world will be TCP (Trusted Computing Platform) compliant, with no illegal or unsigned hardware installed, and especially checking for illegal software.... very clever.... but very evil
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    PS! Sorry if i sound like a nerd 49_49.gif
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The embeding process tho will start after some time, so they say at the antitcpa, but yeah, it's evil, and sick.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    And you can also turn it off and use your computer how we use it now. The only downer is that you won't be able to use your TC software.

    Just another example of big brother watching us. I wouldn't be surprised that within the next 100 years we will all be tagged in some way to let big brother know where we are and maybe what were doing.

    It's all about money and power.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Ok, I'm no expert about the TCPA thing, but someone will always find a way around it. People find ways of copying software, getting around the anti-pirating techniques. People find ways of getting around the need for serial numbers by either getting them, using serial number generators (keygens), or by patching the registry or software. People find ways around hardware protection too - take the PS2 mod chips that allow them to play foreign and copied games. Years ago some software manufacturers tried supplying their software with dongles (a hardware key you plug into your computer), but people found out how to emulate them with inexpensive hardware (I know someone, an electronics engineer, who used to make their own dongles). People have found ways to get around the chips locked against overclocking with modest hardware modifications/accessories. People have found ways around the region locking on DVD players by using mod chips, or in the case of my PC's DVD drive by using firmware cracks. And people will find a way around something like the TCPA.
    At the end of the day, even though there are hardware chips, they are only using software, and software can got around, eitherr by cracks, patches, or mod chips.

    Mr_Wobble ;)
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