Question about Sandy Bridge and Anti-Piracy

Now, to be straight up, I don't pirate things, well to be totally honest, I don't anymore.

But, I've been reading some things about the new chip from Intel (and yes I know it's been pulled) but is the anti-piracy on all of the Sandy bridge line? I'm assuming it is but hope I'm wrong. This seems sort of like putting governors on all cars so they can't go over the speed limit, not necessarily wrong, but a little intrusive.

Also, is AMD looking to do anything similar?

Woops, meant to provide a link
http://hothardware.com/News/Intel-In...-Sandy-Bridge/

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This is less of a case of the CPU telling you what you can and cannot watch, and more a case of the CPU supporting the movie studio's definition of what you can and cannot watch. If it didn't support this DRM, you wouldn't be able to view the content at all.

This isn't something you need to worry about. There are plenty of tools out there which allow the non-pirate to watch their content on whatever computer they wish, without being stung by DRM. Besides, if someone introduced a movie streaming service that required Sandy Bridge to run, it would gain no traction. Least of all with Netflix as a competitor.

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"Intel Insider" is marketing speak.

Hollywood doesn't like the idea of any 1080P content loose without encryption. That's why the data streamed over the HDMI cable from your Blu-ray to your HDTV is encrypted. Every GPU/IGP over the last few years offer this encryption.

Now for a 1080P streaming service to operate in Hollywood's eyes, it would need to heavily encrypted the stream and the problem would then be decrypting it fast enough to provide uninterrupted data.

All Sandy Bridge CPUs have the AES-NI instructions that allow encryption/decryption 4-6 times faster, fast enough to support an encrypted stream. AMD doesn't have this, not all of the previous generation of Intel CPUs have this.

So now that a service like this can be offered, Intel's marketing wrapped it all up in a nice bow and was able to get Hollywood on board so they are now hawking it to the masses as "Intel Insider".

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Ahhh, see this is why I asked here.

You both provided a much more comprehensive explanation then what I was getting from the articles i was reading.

I wasn't anything I'm worried about, since I can't remember the last movie I watched at home, just curious as to why they were doing it.

Thanks again

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I'm sorry that your crew was stupid enough to fire on a station filled with a quarter million civilians, including your own people. And I'm sorry I waited as long as I did before I blew them all straight to hell. ~Sheridan, The Fall of Night