The DRM threat to desktop Linux

By Jack Schofield

The growth of HDTV in the US threatens "the potential marginalization of Linux to older machines or servers," according to Brian Proffitt, Managing Editor of Linux Today, because of the DRM (digital rights management) system much high-def content may employ. Proffitt says:

If HD content will be king, then the manufacturers ... will either have to sign-up for this DRM scheme or they won't. Given that in three or four years, which is when such a DRM plan is expected to be implemented, Vista will have probably gotten itself installed on a majority of the world's desktops and there'll be even more broadband to deliver HD content, only a suicidal card manufacturer would opt out of this DRM scheme.


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