Apple's Intel OSX has DRM, has been leaked to torrent sites, and is likely hackable.

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[Richard Bluestein's Weblog] OSx86, a site which bills itself as "the official wiki of OS X on x86," reports that the current beta of OS X for Intel includes TCPA/TPM DRM. It's said that the OS calls AppleTPMACPI.kext (ie a system extension) on boot up and anyone attempting to run without the appropriate hardware.

Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

[Jeremy.linuxquestions.org] Jeremy's Blog :: Mac OS X Intel Kernel Uses DRM: Everyone knew that Apple wouldn't release a version of OSX that ran on a generic x86 whitebox. Since asking nicely isn't really a viable option, DRM seemed like a good candidate for ensuring compliance.

 [and she said.. "how you interpert the dream is probably more important than the dream itself"] Work much? No. I've been holding off on mentionin...: machines built according to their specification will be more trustworthy from the point of view of software vendors and the content industry, but will be less trustworthy from the point of view of their owners. In effect, the TCG specification will transfer the ultimate control of your PC from you to whoever wrote the software it happens to be running.Luckily, Microsoft is calling it safer computing these days, which must be good, right?

 [TopMac: Apple, Macintosh, Mac OS X, iPod... news, rumors, reviews, pictures.] Apple uses DRM to restrict Intel for OS X: It employs a "TCPA/Palladium implementation that uses a Infineon 1.1 chip which will prevent certain parts of the OS from working unless authorized." Mac enthusiasts and developers have speculated that Apple might use a DRM scheme to prevent consumers from installing Mac OS X for Intel on regular PCs. Apple is also reportedly interested in Intel's DRM technology for preventing piracy of audio (and possibly video) files purchased from its iTunes Music Store.

 [Library Autonomous Zone] DRM, hardware, and digital libraries: Microsoft is workingdiligently to incorporate DRM technologies deep in the Windows operatingsystem and is doing so in a way that will leverage future hardwarelock-downs as well. Seth Schoen, an expert on "trusted computing" at theElectronic Frontier Foundation,attended this year's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC)and has written a four-part series of updates on Microsoft's securityand lock-ware strategy for Windows.

[Tuaw.com] The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): One of the strong advantages that Apple has is that they control the hardware -- giving up this control means their OS would have to adapt to varying third-party engineering and driver writing skills. The risk in this is if a third party builds a substandard component, the end user doesn't see that, they see that their Mac is broken -- and blame it on Apple.

 [Wired.com] Wired News: Hollywood Orders: Apple Wed Intel: Presumably, Jobs used his Pixar moxie to persuade Hollywood to get onboard, and they did so because the Mac platform is seen as small and isolated -- just as it was when the record labels first licensed music to iTunes. The new Mac/Intel platform will be a relatively isolated test bed for the digital distribution of movies and video.

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Posted at August 03, 2005 10:03 AM