Anti-Piracy Chip Follow-up

Atari founder cries wolf about piracy-ending chip on Engadget (thanks Mike Martinez)
looks to debunk the recent assertion by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell that a new
motherboard encryption chip would protect PC gaming from the ravages of piracy
(story). According to the gadgeteers:The magic chip he's
referring to that "will, in fact, absolutely stop piracy of gameplay"? The
TPM chip -- what's been on
motherboards for years, that apparently Bushnell just found out about. While the
tinfoil hats in the house will likely attribute TPM (Trusted Platform Module)
and other onboard crypto-chips to the eventual downfall of privacy and personal
computing, to date we've yet to see piracy stunted or civil liberties breached
because of the little bugger


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