[Scott McCollum]

View the full story at http://worldtechtribune.com/worldtechtribune/asparticles/buzz/bz06282002.asp

[Michael Barnes]

uh-huh...and those gated communities usually have homeowners associations that are more controlling than anything else..No thank you, I'll stick to the wild west if you don't mind..

[newgeezer]

It has often been said that the Internet is similar to the “Wild West” and should be kept that way, because that was a time were people (mostly men with guns) were truly free to roam and explore.

BARF ALERT.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The real purpose of Palladium is to lock out Open Source/Linux/GPL and kill them.

Microsoft Good, Competition Bad.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The outcry against Palladium doesn’t really stem from a concern about your privacy, but more from a vocal minority who wish to impose their anarchistic schemes onto us under the guise of “freedom” and “liberty.”

Anyone who thinks "freedom" and "liberty" are important is deranged.

Orwell was right. Freedom is slavery.

[steve-b]

It has often been said that the Internet is similar to the “Wild West” and should be kept that way, because that was a time were people (mostly men with guns) were truly free to roam and explore.

Back to your DUmpster, troll.

[stylin_geek]

From reading the article, this appears to be another case of wanting to have it both ways..the same people who screamed about internet security and the vulnerability of home pc's to hackers are now screaming because Microsoft is going to try and make it as hard as possible for an intruder to get information from web transactions. The only way to create this kind of security is to integrate software and hardware on both ends. It is a massive project, and it appears that Microsoft is going to spend billions to develop this standard.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Like all of Microsofts software, Palladium will be hacked while it's still in the Beta stage.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I said this on another thread about Palladium and it bears repeating:

I've been writing a piece of music and recorded a draft of it about a week ago onto my Win2000 machine with SoundForge.  I then converted it to .mp3 with AudioCatalyst and uploaded it to my website.

Yesterday I downloaded it on my personal laptop at work, so I could hear it through different speakers.  When I opened it with Media Player 7, the digital media security kernel kicked in and brought up a dialog box stating that I was opening a piece of music "recorded from a CD" and asking me if I wanted "migrate my license" and warning me about copyright infringements.

ON MY OWN MUSIC AND ON MY OWN MACHINES.

If such a simple security concept is already that screwed up, how does MS think it's going to credibly expand in that area?  Palladium will just continue to prove that MS has expanded into markets it can't competently code in.

[dheretic]

the citizens living in the nineteenth century are nowhere close to being as 'free' as those fortunate enough to be alive now.

Spoken like a true Socialist. Here's a small list of things they didn't have to deal with back then:

1. Paying up to 50% of their income to a government that has a tax code so complicated it takes trained professionals to be able to explain it to you.
2. Get a license to own a gun in any part of the US.
3. Bribe a federal agency to allow a drug onto the market because while the agency says it isn't dangerous, the agency just doesn't think it "does enough to be on the market."
4. Worry about hyper-moralist a$$holes that try to the system up so that you have to get government permission to research any new scientific frontier because the resulting "moral consequences" might be "bad." Back then a scientific research team could also hire private security, arm them with military-grade weaponry and order them to defend their labs at all costs. Now they have to rely on whatever police protection they are granted which is next to none if their research isn't a big tax revenue generator and is controversial.
5. Copyright laws that threaten a $600B/year industry to protect the assets of two industries worth a combined total of little more than 5% of that industry.
6. Justifying to the government why they should be allowed the "privelege" of homeschooling their kids.

[Jhoffa_]

I don't know much about the software issue..

But the comparison of "Wild West" to a "Surburban Neighborhood" sounds more like the whining of a pencil-necked control freak than anything resembling a legitimate argument.

Give me the Wild West Please!

And PS, maybe we need to do something to "secure" our "wild west" and keep these pansy control freaks out!