Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:10:44 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: no DRM
Message:
I won't have anything
to do with a computer that uses it.
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:12:22 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: hendrendl@lvcm.com
Subject: DRM and TCPA
Message:
I am totally
opposed to Microsoft's attempt to take over the world
through implementation
of DRM on everones personal computers. I will
never user or buy a computer
with hardware of software that supports
these concepts.
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:17:02 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: Palladium, TCPA
Message:
Hello:
To
manufacture the American Megatrends AMIBIOS8 bios, or any facsimile,
with
embedded Palladium, TCPA technology is neither excusable nor
tolerable.
I
will now never buy any product which incorproates
technology you manufacture,
period.
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:18:11 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: ckirby31@yahoo.com
Subject: DRM and Palladium
Message:
As a result of your
participation in DRM and palladium, I will
no longer buy or build systems with
AMI BIOS.
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 12:11:13 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: wolf_michael@yahoo.com
Subject: No DRM on my computer
Message:
Folks,
I
just want to let you know that I will not buy any computer that uses
any
technique (DRM/TPM is the issue in question right now) that invades
my privacy
or otherwise runs programs on my computer that I am not in
control of. Like
most computer-savvy people, I'm the one in charge of
buying computers for my
friends and relatives, and have bought a number
of computers lately. I'm sure
someone will sell a computer that doesn't
have this junk, and I'll be buying
it, along with an amazing number of
other Americans. Remember the country we
live in and the values we stand
for? Remember what happened with the Pentium
III? You know this will
have exactly the same outcome. Please don't make us
(and yourself)
suffer first.
Michael
Wolf
wolf_michael@yahoo.com
wolf@cs.stanford.edu
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003
To:
From: phillipsted@comcast.net
Subject: No to Palladium
Message:
I will not
purchase systems using your BIOS if you implement features
that cripple my
ability to control my computer. Please reconsider your
product feature set.
Ted Phillips, IT Consultant, Reston Virginia
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:03:29 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: mspitze1@optonline.net
Subject: I will not buy systems with AMIBIOS8 in them
Message:
Due to the fact that I do not want the embeding of Palladium and
TCPA
DRM in any product I own I will not be buying any product that
contains
AMIBIOS8 in it and I will tell the vendor why. I shall also
tell
everyone I know not to do so.
Good day
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:28:39 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: indianz@indianz.ch
Subject: NO PALLADIUM
Message:
I will not use/buy/support
any AMIBIOS-based Computer. No TCPA, No Palladium!
GreetZ from Switzerland,
IndianZ
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:17:41 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: Palladium
Message:
You will bring a boycott upon yourselves if you continue to
research
and develop the BIOS containing palladium. Nobody enjoys an invasion
of
privacy on the level palladium would bring. Outside companies will
develop
spyware free hardware and software hanging YOU out to dry.
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:23:58 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: I hate you
Message:
I will NEVER willingly buy this invasive
freedom-destroying,
anti-privacy-and-basic-human-rights crap !! You should be
ashamed of
yourselves for asociating yourselves with this filth, you evil
people.
Go fuck yourselves ! ~Blackfire~
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:40:07 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: notpm@ltrconsulting.com
Subject: No Big Brother
Message:
I will not buy
any hardware with Palladium or TPM. I will
tell all of my clients not to buy
any hardware with
Palladium or TPM.
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 21:00:47 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: AMIBIOS8 & DRM
Message:
Dear Ami, I was appalled to hear of your activities
in compliance with
the stealthy implementation of these systems. As the
Technical Director
of a company that builds and installs many systems
companies in central
London, I can assure you that your products will no
longer be finding
their way into my clients systems if you so down this
particular road.
Please...no disingenuous PR response.
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:32:46 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: mjr40@ix.netcom.com
Subject: DRM Enabled chips
Message:
Sir or
Madam:
This email is to protest the production of the AMIBIOS8
DRM-enabled
chip. DRM is an invasion of privacy and will not allow me to run
Free
Software.
Thank you.
Regards,
Matthew J. Rosenwasser
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 23:20:36 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: bl_oggs@hotmail.com
Subject: DRM Chips
Message:
I find the thought of placing
DRM chips and any TCPA soft/hardware into
private computers totally
abhorent.
To think, that if this is implimented that only "allowed" software
will
be accepted on MY machine is Nazi like in its control over what I do.
It should be as abhorent to you as it is to me, an American living with
the
freedoms that the constitution allows.
What next, only web pages that have
the corect content will be allowed
to be viewed?
Only the correct religious
text allowed?
This is wrong, and I urge you not to make, and forceably
distribute your
AMIBIOS8 and TM5800 chips.
fred.
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003
To:
From: gbella@teleport.com
Subject: this concerns me
Message:
I will not
buy computer systems equipped with AMI BIOS. I am concerned
about your
contribution to increasing the privacy and security worries
of computer users.
Your BIOS design does not make a safer world.
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 02:03:11 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: ken195@bigfoot.com (Ken
Subject: We don't want Palladium
Message:
We don't want
palladium. We don't want you stealing our rights as humans
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 03:19:15 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: p_boido@libero.it
Subject: Stop producing AMIBIOS8
Message:
I will
boycott any technology that enables TCPA and Palladium technology
on my
computer.
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 05:46:58 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: roly-sue@cyberdude.com
Subject: BIOS/DRM chips
Message:
Please be aware that
if I encounter a machine with these chips in them,
I will not purchase the
product. I shall also tell everyone I know the
dangers of purchasing machines
with these chips.
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:19:57 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: hipplebeck1@cs.com
Subject: palladium
Message:
I will not buy systems with
your BIOS. I am against the DRM idea
altogether. Spreading the word will
become my life's work. Do you
understand?
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:25:05 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: jimmurray68@hotmail.com
Subject: BOIS
Message:
I refuse to purchase any
computer system which contains the AMI BIOS.
IF all computers at some point
contain this device I just will not use
or buy a home computer.
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:25:15 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: jimmurray68@hotmail.com
Subject: BIOS
Message:
I refuse to purchase any
computer system which contains the AMI BIOS.
IF all computers at some point
contain this device I just will not use
or buy a home computer.
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:09:06 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: fred@fred.com (fred
Subject: Just say NO to PALLADIUM
Message:
As a computer
manager for a small business (the owner is very concerned)
we will not be
purchasing any products that will not be under our full
and complete
control.
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:10:47 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: kirk@oregonwebdesign.com
Subject: Makes me want to write a rant
Message:
I'll
keep it simple.
Make em, keep em.
I will not ever own a machine containing
the DMCA enabled bios.
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:17:53 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: gbattag455@aol.com
Subject: no palladium
Message:
i will not buy systems with
your BIOS.
you can keep your DRM crippled chips.
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003
To:
From: mjwil@kaytea.net (John Wares)
Subject: Bios
Message:
I won't be buying any computer that has your BIOS installed. Grow
up!
Stop trying to control what doesn't belong to you!
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:09:51 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: TPM chips
Message:
The recent
news of MS and AMI integrating DRM And TPM chips into systems
to moderate
incoming and outgoing data completely disgusts me. I urge
AMI to stop the
design and production of such systems. As a AMI bios
user since 1993...if
such technology is implemented into your systems, I
will have to find an
alternative bios system for the future. I do not
support your efforts to
conform to microsofts standards.
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:44:31 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: gwms@corninglink.com
Subject: No Palladium or other DMCA-style garbage
Message:
Please be aware that I don't buy crippled spyware-ridden junk.
I'll
build boxes out of old parts if that's what it takes.
Please build
upgraded PC's and get the techbiz back so I can go back to
work.
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:37:24 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: bios
Message:
I will not buy
any product which uses the AMIBIOS8 chip, I will boycott
any technology that
enables TCPA and Palladium technology on my computer
or other
electronics
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 15:25:14 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: nope, i will not buy
Message:
not if they allow Palladium.
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:34:53 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: dldorman@uwm.edu (deeann
Subject: no to palladium enabling
Message:
won't be buying
any systems with AMI BIOS.
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:58:02 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: freedom for my data !!
Message:
hi ami
please keep off my data
and let me use it just like
it
were mine.
i will not buy any cpu with drm enabled
that means my personal
rights are disabled!
greets
jan meyer
fh-potsdam
berlin germany
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:53:54 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: TCPA-enabled BIOS
Message:
I am writing out of deep concern for the TCPA campaign. TCPA
may
provide a trusted environment for corporations and for government
and
military systems, but home users operate on a completely different
basis.
Every day, home users INTENTIONALLY run untrusted code. Users
download games
and taskbar applications that contain spyware, and they
don't care. Some
users are even happy to have spyware on their
computer. Users, like me, that
find spyware and other "malware"
intrusive take the time and effort to remove
it ourselves.
TCPA represents a serious danger to home user's privacy.
Trusted code
is not a concern of home users. However, the simple fact is that
TCPA
will be a springboard for DRM technology. I don't want to buy a PC
that
won't let me use my files. While I certainly respect
intellectual
property rights of artists and corporations, Palladium and other
such
systems will, and I stress the word will, be used to eliminate
what
recording studios, movie studios and software companies perceive
as
piracy.
I also have concerns about the effect of TCPA and Palladium on
Linux,
BSD and other open systems. I use FreeBSD on my home PC. Will
TCPA
provide code, without license restriction to GNU or other programmers,
to
integrate into their operating systems? If I use Linux or BSD, does
my
operating have to be TCPA-enabled to boot? Will I or programmers
designing
these operating systems be sued or prosecuted under the DMCA
for simply using
and creating operating systems that are free of DRM
restrictions? All of these
issues trouble me.
For these reasons, I have no intention of purchasing
TCPA-enabled
systems, whether they be motherboards, processors, peripherals
or
software. I will encourage others to follow suit. As a consumer, when
I
use my PC, I want to feel assured that I can execute local commands
without
restriction, that I can listen to music or watch DVDs without
having that data
locked out or reported to an agency or company, that I
can customize my
operating system and software without running into
snags from motherboard or
processor-level trust restrictions. Put
simply, I want to be able to use my
PC as I choose to, without
restriction. Please take my comments, and a
consumer, into
consideration. Marketing TCPA-enabled hardware to corporations
or
government agencies may be a good business decision, but do not take
away
the rights of consumers.
Bill Sawyer
369 Centennial Hall
Truman State
University
Kirksville, MO 63501
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:57:37 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: shrink@rain.org (Shellie
Subject: boycott
Message:
I will not buy systems with your
BIOS. Don't even start going in that
direction.
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003
To:
From: ecoh2oks@juno.com (Kirt R.
Subject: Palladium
Message:
I intend to boycott any
computers with DRM and Palladium supported
systems.
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003
To:
From: atec@hotpop.com (Michael
Subject: NO PALLADIUM !!
Message:
>From :
Michael
Relfe
Director
Goldman Wolfe Group
Attention :
Please be advised that our
company will not
use any AMD Bios or AMD CPU (Athlon XP, Hammer
or ANY other
CPU) if AMD violates privacy and security
by implementing any PART of the
Palladium designs.
You would be a fool to join INTEL in ANY program. AMD
has
made its name with MILLIONS of young programmers,
hackers and super gamers and
I may be almost 50 years
old but I can guarantee those kids will BOYCOTT
your
company enmass. If you join these intelligence spooks
in their Palladium
program, you will never know what
hit you. Serves you right.
Michael relfe
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 10:48:43 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: rjairam@earthlink.net
Subject: Hello
Message:
I am deeply concerned that
your company is going to be selling Palladium
enabled BIOS chips. As an avid
user of GNU free software, this does not
go well with me.
If you sell
Palladium enabled BIOS chips, I will not be buying any
computers that contain
them. I will also encourage my friends and
colleagues to do the same.
Have a
good day.
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:51:09 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: Petkov23@yahoo.com
Subject: no DRM,TCPA, DRMA or Palladium
Message:
you can keep your BIOS, I will make sure NEVER to buy a
motherboard with
YOUR BIOS chips on it
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:56:16 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: bradoaks@hotmail.com
Subject: AMIBIOS8
Message:
Hello,
I am writing to
inform you that I will do everything I can do to keep
from buying your DRM
hooked products. I will also do my best to
convince my friends and family.
I
do not steal music or movies. I do not want the government or
corporations
prying into my computer just to prove that I'm not a
criminal.
The
Entertainment Industry is going too far; the money and time your company has
spent on DRM should have gone towards innovation that would serve your
customers.
Left to wonder if I'll buy even your non DRM hooked
products,
--bradoaks.
550 E Martin St
Raleigh NC 27601-1958
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From: nanavati@softhome.com (Daniel Nanavati)
Subject: new chips
Message:
Although you need to fight terrorists your way forward is not to
destroy
the founding principle of the internet.
Installing new technology to
view people's computers all around the
world will kill innovation and the pc
age because people will cease to
buy what in effect is cctv in their front
rooms.
Better to spend your money killing off dictators,
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:15:41 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: pooveye@jbu.edu
Subject:
Message:
If I pay for the computer or the software, it is mine.
No one has a right in this country to come and use it or take it's operation
away from me. We don't need companies in this country making DRM chips that
will cripple our computers just because we do or say something they don't
like.
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:46:45 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: va3atc@rac.ca (Steve
Subject: TCPA
Message:
I will make note that any computer
I buy in the future doesn't contain any TCPA code in my BIOS.
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 18:44:40 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: h.luck@online.no (Helmut
Subject: TCPA
Message:
I will never buy hardware with
DRM.
Helmut Luck
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 21:38:08 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: m_l_hartley@yahoo.com
Subject: Palladium
Message:
I'll stick with old
hardware before I will ever by hardware that is "Palladized."
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:05:57 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: pegryan@ivwnet.com
Subject: BOYCOTTING MACHINES WITH YOUR BIOS
Message:
I do not want the embedding of Palladium and TCPA DRM in any
product I own. I will not buy any product that contains AMI BIOS8 in it and I
will explain the reason to any vendor I meet. I will also tell everyone I
know not to do so. My email address booklist is already aware of this. You
are infringing on my freedom and I will respond accordingly.
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:20:55 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: DOOLEYC@FIRSTCHARTER.COM
Subject: THE WAR ON THE WORLD BY CORPORATE AMERICA
Message:
i will not buy, support or help your product gain momentum in the
market and will with all my power and resources help bring you down to
bankruptcy by letting every man on earth know how you all are trying to make
our world a gestapo dictatorship. me and billions of others will continously
become informed until one day, you all will perish out of existence. we will
not sit by and let you try and control our very own personal lives thru our
own personal devices..
die greedy corporate and sick corporate bastards and
achieve some common sense.
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 18:34:53 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: jbousfield@jembooks.com
Subject: BIOS - PALLADIUM
Message:
I will not buy
any new computer with any hardware which prevents me from operating the
computer as I please. This includes the ability to use alternate operating
systems.
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 03:19:29 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: markland75@yahoo.com
Subject: TCPA Compliant Bios Modules
Message:
Dear Sirs:
I have been using computers with AMI Bioses since the
early 90's but I will no longer purchase any hardware which contains your
products if you produce TCPA compliant bioses. This would effectively be the
end of free software (and free speech.) It is absurd to rely on Microsoft to
solve the problems with internet security, when it is their poorly designed
software that is responsible for a majority of the security problems to begin
with.
Sincerely,
Mark Landreville
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:00:59 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: People For Fair Use: Boycott
Message:
Can you say dictatorship?
Please do not allow this to happen.
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 15:35:04 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: BIOS boycott
Message:
I have recently become aware of Microsoft's Palladium DRM
technology and AMI's related BIOS development. I would just like to inform
you I will never buy anything which allows this circumvention of privacy.
People have a right to use PCs privately and however they see fit, as long as
no laws are broken. I guess it's back to the Mac!
Kind regards,
Alex
Borbiro,
Australia
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 08:07:53 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: hti-me@bzzz.net
Subject: i will NO
Message:
i will not buy the hardware
that have controle inside!
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:16:18 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: turqslady@aol.com (K.
Subject: BIOS enabled systems
Message:
I WILL NOT buy
systems with BIOS!
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:59:28 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: Palladium, DRM,
Message:
I will not purchase any system with any
sort of digital rights management or trusted computing technology embedded on
it, nor will I service or recommend any client to do so. This is a flagrant
violation of my privacy and security and I will use openbios, linux/BSD, and
any other system possible to avoid this technology. If it does become
pervasive, I will only purchase used and older systems. I have advsed all of
my clients and associates of this issue and uppon hearing the facts, they have
made their own decisions to avoid your products. As one of the better BIOS
manufacturers, I hope you rectify this situation so that I may continue to
purchase your product.
-Dietrich Murawsky
President, Eclypse Computing and
Networks
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 14:15:48 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: mchang@tmpg.com (Marvin
Subject: Boycott Palladium
Message:
I just wanted to let you
guys know that shall you go ahead and manufacture any cpu's (computers) with
the palladium technology. All the people I know, people I don't know that feel
the same way and I will not purchase your product! Please take this into
consideration. Invasion of privacy is just not right! I hope you can
understand.
Sincerely,
Marvin Chang
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:21:21 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: mylesb@mylesb.com (Myles
Subject: Boycott Palladium DRM TCPA
Message:
I just wanted
to let you guys know that shall you go ahead and manufacture any cpu's
(computers) with the palladium technology, drm, or tcpa. All the people I
know, people I don't know that feel the same way and I will not purchase your
product! Please take this into consideration. Invasion of privacy is just not
right! I hope you can understand.
Sincerely,
Myles Burwick
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 23:51:09 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: DRM
Message:
I view
with dismay the attempt to block free speech and communication with crippled
hardware. I will resist this strongly and will urge all my students to do so
too.
Jon Jermey
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 03:57:42 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: heng@blueyonder.co.uk
Subject: TCPA
Message:
I will *not* be purchasing
any equipment with TCPA "technology" installed.
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003
To:
From: janvanmorgan2@email.com
Subject: Please help!
Message:
In the role of computer
consultant I'll be advising all companies and people not to buy any computer
hardware containing TCP technology.
Wise up!
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 09:39:16 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: ward@pong.be (Ward
Subject: Objection to AMIBIOS8
Message:
Hello,
Just to
let you know that I refuse to buy any of your products in the future, as long
as you support TCPA/Palladium/DRM. Don't come and tell me that these are not
the same thing, I know. But TCPA will inevitably lead to enforced DRM. And I
don't see any value in a system that I cannot control entirely. I do not wish
to surrender *my* hardware that *I* bought to some corporate entity that will
decide what I can do with it. Forget it.
Stop producing TCPA enabled BIOSes,
or face the consequences for your sales and PR... As you will have understood
by now, I am not alone, and word-of-mouth is a powerful weapon.
Do feel free
to answer to this message and tell me about what you are doing.
Bye for
now,
Ward Vandewege.
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:08:24 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: repulse@mail.com
Subject: AMI and TCPA BIOS
Message:
I wish to
register my objection to the new AMI BIOS that incorporates Trusted Computing
Platform Alliance (TCPA) features. I believe these features, despite your
company's protests to the contrary, will make my computer nothing more than a
remote delivery terminal for faceless media companies wanting to preserve an
outdated business model. In particular it contains the necessary features to
implement Microsoft's "Palladium" system which would destory fair use and
possibly Free operating systems such as Linux.
I will not buy computers
equipped with this BIOS and I urge you to rethink your company's practice of
selling out to the entertainment cartels.
Sincerely,
Dr. Dominic
Jackson
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 20:10:44 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: Very Important ...
Message:
I will never buy a system that includes your Digital Rights
Management Bios ! We will never let the Big Brother become real !
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From: proclus@gnu-darwin.org (Michael L. Love)
Subject: No to DRM
Message:
I would definitely not be interested in a DRM-enabled BIOS from
AMI. DRM steals fair use rights from people, and controls consumers towards
the profit of a few. Please reconsider including DRM technology in your
products.
Regards,
proclus
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 00:25:51 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: palladium-ami@dpf.cc
Subject: Avoid TCPA/Palladium in your products
Message:
Dear Sirs,
Please be advised that including TCPA/Palladium and
similar DRM functionality in your otherwise general purpose products will
prevent me from buying them. I do not want my purchases of general purpose
computing equipment to be restricted by other unscrupulous vendors.
Your
products are otherwise very nice and are great for my use in the past, but in
the future I will not buy them if you continue this course.
Thanks,
Doug
Fields
New York City
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 00:37:19 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: nicebassline@yahoo.com
Subject: No PALLADIUM
Message:
I am considering a new
computer. If your boards have DRM built in, I'm going MAC. Don't do it. Your
stock will suffer.
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 00:42:31 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: myohmy718@yahoo.com
Subject: DRM CHIPS
Message:
I want to tell American
Megatrends
and Transmeta not to produce their AMIBIOS8 and TM5800
chips. I
will boycott any technology that enables
TCPA and Palladium technology on my
computer. This kind of deception is unfair and unacceptable. SIncerely, Jimmy
Li
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 01:30:11 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: freedom of the press
Message:
It is the consumer who produces your cashflow.
Forget that and you
will suffocate yourself.
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 04:00:43 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: kai_svahn@hotmail.com
Subject: NO to PALLADIUM
Message:
Message:
I will
boycott any technology that enables
TCPA and Palladium technology on my
computer.
Best Regards
Kai Svahn
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 04:01:46 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: brandon@pennant.com
Subject: Palladium and AMI chipsets
Message:
If
AMI's bios start to contain Palladium-related infrastucture/code, not only
will I refuse to buy anything with an AMI chip on it (any chip) but I will
make sure my family and as many of my friends as possible don't buy anything
with AMI chips in them.
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 04:17:49 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: phault1@hotmail.com
Subject: no PALLADIUM
Message:
I will buy nothing with
palladium, ok?
do you choice!
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 04:57:56 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: feldpost@gmx.de (nils
Subject: Palladium? - No thanks!
Message:
Dear Sirs and
Madams,
I write today to inform you that I really hope that you won't be
following Microsofts Palladium/TCPA ideas.. I don't want any Big Brother Mods
on my computer that take control from the user (ie me) and transfer it to Mr.
Gates Empire. I wouldn't want to ask Mr. Gates or the RIAA if I'm allowed to
listen to my mp3-copies of music I PAID FOR on any other system or wether I'm
allowed to use this or that programm, open a file or not. I don't want any of
that on any system of mine. Please don't start including TCPA systems in your
BIOSs as you'd lose another potent customer, as soon as I'd find those systems
in your products!
Please don't send me an informative mail telling me more of
Microsofts FUD arguments about the benefits of TCPA. I heard the arguments, I
decided TCPA is a Bad Idea.
I live in Germany, and thus I've first hand
experience with organisations that start out as wanting "only the best for the
citizens" and end up as being the former east german secret agency (STASI)
that was but a tool of oppression!
I like my computer system to be free. I
like to make my own choices.
Thank you for your attention.
Thank you for
choosing not to include TCPA mods in your BIOSs.
Sincerly
nils thode
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 05:42:56 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: down-to-earth@gmx.de
Subject: Please stop your DRM chips!
Message:
Hi!
Please
stop the selling of TCPA-driven Chips!
Regards, Pascal
(Berlin/Germany)
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:00:42 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: bbuckman@southward.com
Subject: stop with the DRM!!
Message:
stop using
DRM technologies in your cpus now!!! consider yourself boycotted in the
meantime.
peace
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 08:18:48 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: james@starsfaq.com
Subject: I plan to boycott AMIBIOS8 and all other chips with
Message:
I run my own small company selling custom built high
spec computers. Part of the commitment I make to my customer is that the
hardware I build will be fully compatible with existing and future software
and also have optimal performance. TCPA is designed to prevent or limit access
to certain parts of the computer system and enforce the use of certain pieces
of computer code, this takes away from me, the system builder, the choice and
responsibility of which software I trust to run on the machines I build. The
BIOS rests at the core of the system and has the potential to affect the
entire system. If I cannot trust the BIOS (by having the option to replace or
modify it), then I cannot trust the rest of any system I make and so cannot
give the same guarentes that my customers expect.
While I have chosen and
used motherboards that use your chips for systems I have built, I must
regretfully inform you that I cannot buy or recommend to my clients any
computer hardware that contains your TCPA within them, including AMIBIOS8.
I
hope that you will continue to produce chips that live up to your past
standards and are not crippled by TCPA, so that I may have the best products
with which to build my computer systems.
--
James McGuigan (Crystalline
Computers)
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:10:24 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: gteplansky@attbi.com
Subject: DRM / Palladium
Message:
If
manufacturers choose to crawl into bed with the government to allow unfettered
access by others to my computer, my answer is simple. I will not buy new
computers with these capabilities built in. I will not upgrade. I will not
buy anything with your products packaged with them. I have four computers
currently ranging from 166mhz to 600 mhz in speed. Quite adquate for our
household and office. Perhaps you would like to read our personal diaries,
too. But, alas they are not available on computer. My computer is just that
- my computer and my personal information. The move to allow external control
is another step in the direction of controlling personal thought. I will
respect your right to make foolish invasive decisions by not knowingly buying
your products.
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:13:28 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: rah@bash.sh (Robert
Subject: BIOSes crippled with DRM
Message:
Hi there,
Just
thought I'd let you know that there's not a hope in hell of me ever buying
hardware that has a Palladium-style BIOS or, in fact, anything at all that
would remove my ability to run any code I wish on my own computer. I mean,
come on, you've got to be joking. Are we living in China or
something?
Regards,
Robert Ham
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:34:54 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: self@evident.com (David
Subject: No to DRM-enabled Chips
Message:
Dear
AMI,
Notably absent in your recent meetings to decide the fate of the digital
marketplace of ideas were the voices of the customer. Had I, as an AMI
customer, been allowed to speak, I would have said that I will not buy a
computer that has been hardware-enabled for "DRM" since it gives the creators
of content the right to control how I use that content, a right we have not
allowed in any other medium.
I ask you to have the guts to announce that
bullying customers is not what AMI is about. Back away from the one-sided
agreement. I would like to be able to buy AMI-based computers in the future,
but I will not if by so doing I am enabling Hollywood to hijack my
computer.
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:17:56 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: no TCPA in
Message:
I hope u people will NOT produce this new TCPA
enabled BIOS, i hereby will garantee you that we wil NOT buy ANY systems with
these bioses implemented or any other TCPA enabled hardware.ve
The reason
for this is that we want to have full control of what software we run on each
machine, and we can't and won't work with any system that we cant read the
source of..
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:40:49 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: NO to palladium
Message:
I will not buy a computer that has any of this stuff in it.
You
are getting way too personal.It is not your business,it is mine.
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:40:55 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: NO to palladium
Message:
I will not buy a computer that has any of this stuff in it.
You
are getting way too personal.It is not your business,it is mine.
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 10:40:57 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: NO to palladium
Message:
I will not buy a computer that has any of this stuff in it.
You
are getting way too personal.It is not your business,it is mine.
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 11:03:58 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: A shameful policy to
Message:
I ask you to have the guts to announce that bullying
customers is not what AMI is about. Back away from the one-sided agreement. I
would like to be able to buy AMI-based computers in the future, but I will not
if by so doing I am enabling Hollywood to hijack my computer.
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:01:07 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: Do NOT implement DRM/TCPA!
Message:
Hello,
I am a concerned citizen and customer who will be
affected by the changes you are planning to implement. I want to let you know
that I will not under any circumstances purchase anything that has DRM
hardwired in, and I'm not alone. They say the consumer can vote with his
pocketbook, and history has shown that they will. Please do not make the
critical mistake of alienating many customers and forcing us to switch to
Macs!
Sincerely,
Chris Zaldua
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:08:13 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: podkc@yahoo.com (Justin
Subject: I will not buy systems with their BIOS
Message:
I
will boycott any technology that enables
TCPA and Palladium technology on your
computer.
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:11:40 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: no buy
Message:
I
wouldn't buy an AMI board crippled with DRM if it was it was the only one on
earth. They suck and so do you for making them.
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003
To:
From:
Subject: NO to
Message:
Hi,
I am vehemently opposed to the
introduction of TCPA/Palladium/DRM technologies, and will definately boycott
any products which support these technologies.
tjc.
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003
To:
From: newg0d@hotmail.com
Subject: drm chips
Message:
i willnot buy your products
that contain Drm crippled cpu chips in them....and a number of others will not
also
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:37:30 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: tohellwithw@yahoo.com
Subject: palladium
Message:
I'm going to buy a mac and I
just installed Linux on my p11 400mmx system and there's nothing you can do
about it.
d
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:57:15 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: jgroblebe@yahoo.com
Subject: Your dammed greed
Message:
You and
your greed to control everything and everyone suck! What are you a bunch of
dammed commies! We the people think thats the case. I'll bet your so proud
of yourself's. Do you think you can do this and not suffer any repercussions?
Yor terribly wrong! See you in the trenches!!!
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003
To:
From: djlouder@yahoo.com
Subject: NO TMP FOR ME!!!
Message:
Every single one of
my friends, family & I refuse to buy any computer with a TPM inside I use
the
term "TPM" to include TPM-like devices, whether in a
separate chip, in the
BIOS chip, or even in the cpu. We will be receiving a list of all
manufacturers that will be implementing this technology and I promise I will
distribute the list to every person I ever come in contact with. This
technology is not right and we refuse to support it.
Thank you for
reading!
-Ruben J. Hernandez
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:44:34 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: drXeNo@drxeno.net
Subject: Boycotting AMIBIOS8
Message:
To
Whom it May Concern;
I refuse to to be forced to buy PERSONAL equipment that
can be secretly spied upon by Big Brother companies or government agencies.
I
am joining the growing group of boycotters against your new AMIBIOS8!
Sincerely,
Edward E. Kadel, III
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 17:45:24 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: rickch99@yahoo.com
Subject: freedom
Message:
i have never
questioned my faith in your systems until now. Do not let your product further
degrade American freedoms!
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 18:18:04 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: ernest@ole-records.com
Subject: I will boycot any Palladium-enabled
Message:
See subject
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 19:02:16 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: hilleden@earthlink.net
Subject: NO DRM
Message:
I am morally opposed
to the placement of monitoring equipment on my computer and will boycott,
support a boycott, and do everything within my power to support the opposition
to DRM's and DRM type equipment.
Your companies have gone too far in trying
to control our daily lives. I will not purchase your chip and I will inform
everyone of this infringement upon our freedom to choose.
Make the right
choice. Stop production of DRM infected Chips.
Ricky Dean Fisher
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 19:07:48 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: sean@coho.org
Subject: NO to PALLADIUM
Message:
American Megatrends and
Transmeta: Please do not produce the AMIBIOS8 and TM5800 chips, as I will
boycott any technology that enables TCPA and Palladium technology on my
hardware platform.
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:37:57 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: lin@mcenerny.com (Linda
Subject: DONT DO IT!
Message:
As an independent
technician creating custom systems I will personally refuse to use any parts,
chips, motherboards, etc from companies that produce crippled chips and
botched BIOSes. I will use every effort to inform others of the implications
of supporting this sell-out technology.
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 23:58:14 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: freedom
Message:
Hey i think we need
to protect the society but we also need to have freedom.
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 00:56:32 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: NO DRM. NO TPM. NO PALLADIUM
Message:
Sean Connery keeps playing over again and again in my head. You
people are seriously asking for a civil war.
What if our enemies crack it. I
mean somewhere some how they could crack it for a second. Or better, the man
holding his finger over the red button will see what the other is doing and
then they both push red buttons.
FUCK I thought the Cold War was over.
There
won't be anything left but the cockroaches once this shit is over.
NO you
can't OWN all of my private property.
No I won't tasitly sit by and allow you
to make a victim of me.
Playing off the 'ignorance' of the youth and trusting
babyboomer is an abomination.
My people will one day sit in your chair and we
will remember the halocaust you've proposed.
If you want to act like
coackroaches, we will stomp you as such, one by one.
FUCK OFF BIG
BROTHER.
Ellen Ring
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 06:05:01 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: some customer comments on
Message:
Dear Sir or Madam,
I have
recently heard about your plans to produce TCPA and Palladium enabled
chipsets. I just wanted to let you know that I, along with many others, find
these DRM technologies to be utterly unacceptable. Furthermore, I will,
without any question, boycott companies which choose to participate in
attempting to force such technologies on the citizens of this world.
Please
reconsider your decision to support the Palladium and TCPA
systems.
Sincerely,
Eric Altendorf
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:28:52 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: baskeukens@hotmail.com
Subject: AMI BIOS DRM CRAP
Message:
People at AMI,
We no
longer buy mainbords with AMI BIOS, and we also stopped to support computers
with AMI BIOS.
Privacy is something where company's should be protect their
cusomers! DRM does the opposite, keep your crappy BIOS. And be ashamed of
yourselve.
Bas.
Manufactoring Music Production PC's
And participant at
United Musicians Europe
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:52:58 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: necia@nrginmotion.com
Subject: Stop the Maddness
Message:
Rather than
dealing with this kind of technology, I am prepared to grow my own food,
unplug every thing in my house that can ber bugged, tapped into, tampered with
by the government and other money hungry scavengers looking for one more way
to invade my life, get more money, charge me an arm and a leg for stuff it
cost them pennies to make. I am Tired of this game. Stay out of private life
please.
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:53:08 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: necia@nrginmotion.com
Subject: Stop the Maddness
Message:
Rather than
dealing with this kind of technology, I am prepared to grow my own food,
unplug every thing in my house that can ber bugged, tapped into, tampered with
by the government and other money hungry scavengers looking for one more way
to invade my life, get more money, charge me an arm and a leg for stuff it
cost them pennies to make. I am Tired of this game. Stay out of private life
please.
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:53:00 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: necia@nrginmotion.com
Subject: Stop the Maddness
Message:
Rather than
dealing with this kind of technology, I am prepared to grow my own food,
unplug every thing in my house that can ber bugged, tapped into, tampered with
by the government and other money hungry scavengers looking for one more way
to invade my life, get more money, charge me an arm and a leg for stuff it
cost them pennies to make. I am Tired of this game. Stay out of private life
please.
From:
To: "'mjnja@yahoo.com'"
Subject: RE: Do NOT implement
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 11:42:23 -0500
Hello Chris,
Thank you for taking time to contact us here at AMI.
We
would like to underline some relevant points about our announcement and
the
purpose of TCPA. We urge you to please give us a minute of your time to
fully
understand what AMI is offering and thus be able to make a fully
informed
decision
It must be noted that AMI has not announced support for
Microsoft's
Palladium. Palladium is an initiative by an OS entity that is
slated for the
future. To be honest, though we do know about it, AMI has not
begun any
development related to it. At this point we have not made any
decisions on
support either.
TCPA is completely optional to our customers
(OEMs, ODMs, CMs and other
system builders). They may choose to make it
available or not, depending on
the needs of their market. We have had
requests from a number of customers
for this technology.
Depending from the
motherboard manufacturer, you will continue to find
motherboards enabled by
AMIBIOS that do not feature TCPA. I must also add
that AMIBIOS is not the
first to offer this feature - There are already PCs
featuring this technology
or other BIOS vendors enabling this technology or
other hardware-based
security options based on encrypted authentication.
TCPA does not equal
Palladium. While certainly there is some future
development overlap between
the two, TCPA is being introduced by OEM's as a
security option to protect
systems through hardware and firmware.
The purpose of TCPA is to implement a
subsystem to protect computer clients
from software hackers, not DRM. It is
poorly suited, even from a technical
point of view, for DRM. DRM applications
might use TCPA applications or not,
and DRM can be introduced without TCPA. If
you are against DRM, your
concerns should be expressed to the organizations
that promote it.
On TCPA goals and
functions:
http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/why_tcpa.pdf
On
misconceptions in circulating
papers:
http://www.research.ibm.com/gsal/tcpa/tcpa_rebuttal.pdf
Another
common misconception is that TCPA would not allow people to run
Linux. It
actually does not limit the ability to run Linux (or any other
open source
solution). Linux device drivers for TCPA are available as well.
In addition
to this, the TCPA FAQ document reports several protections for
those users
that are concerned with their privacy:
* The system owner has ultimate
control and permissions over private
information and must opt-in to utilize a
TCPA subsystem.(...) A TCPA
subsystem can be disabled permanently
* The
specification allows the system owner to create multiple and/or
anonymous
identities to enhance personal security and remove avenues for
identity
cross-correlation
* Supports multiple certificate authorities to give user
choice
* Code, applets or drivers used on a TCPA subsystem do not need to
be
signed, unless the Operating system used specifically requires it.
Please
refer to: TCPA
FAQ
http://www.infineon.com/cmc_upload/documents/048/002/TCPA_FAQ_1.pdf
As a
smaller company itself, AMI has always supported innovation and
creativity, as
these have been our main tools in competing against much
larger companies in
our industry. We would not do anything that in our
minds would damage our
credibility or reputation for world class BIOS
solutions and will carefully
evaluate this type of feedback when it does
come time to examine any future
technologies. We would also like to
recommend that anyone who is opposed to a
Palladium-type solution in the
future, please make that known to OEM's and
system builders. As they are
our customers, we definitely listen to them in
terms of what they (and
hopefully their customers) will want in future
BIOS.
Thank you again for your time in contacting us and we hope that this
and
some of the links below will shed some light on AMI's
plans.
LINKS
Original Articles on
theinquirer.net
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7089
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7103
Interview
with Slashdot ("real, not laundered")
<http://interviews.slashdot.org/>
AMI
TCPA module
Whitepaper
http://www.ami.com/support/doc/TCPA_whitepaper.pdf
TCPA
FAQ
http://www.infineon.com/cmc_upload/documents/048/002/TCPA_FAQ_1.pdf
TPM
FAQ
http://www.infineon.com/cmc_upload/documents/048/003/TPM_FAQ_1.pdf
TCPA
Website
<http://www.trustedcomputing.org/>
From: mjnja@yahoo.com [SMTP:mjnja@yahoo.com]
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:35:13 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: PaulG4awz@hotmail.com
Subject: Palladium &DRM
Message:
We are boycotting the
hardware that Palladium needs. Before
Palladium is rolled out,
Palladium-enabling hardware must be placed in most of
the world's personal
computers. Right now such hardware is being placed in
computers meant for
home and business use without the buyer being told.
Our boycott is aimed at
stopping Palladium-enabling hardware from being
secretly forced into every
personal computer in world. We intend to stop
Palladium before we cease to
own the computers in our own houses and offices.
I have plenty of earlier PC
boards & processors that are quite suitable to
use for many years to
come......
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 15:38:47 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: eortiz@eresmas.net
Subject: Our freedom is your guarantee
Message:
Once we lose our freedom you will lose your market place.
Please
let us be free enough to decide
enrique
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 18:46:27 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: colinpierce77@yahoo.com
Subject: nazi chips
Message:
to whom it may
concern:
i am not urging you not to produce the following chips: AMIBIOS8
and TM5800
because i am certain that you will proceed anyway. i am simply
telling you that i will ppublicly discourage use of these products and support
of your company at large in as much as the law allows. and i will personally
boycott both your company and any other company which supports your products.
what i do with my computer is my business and no one elses and i will not
accept any product which allows some other entity to control my computer and
myself. this is supposed to be a free country, but recent events have forced
me to accept that this is and has been a lie. you can keep your nazi chips.
no thanks,
colin pierce
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 19:30:10 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: headgeek@dallas.net
Subject: No Palladium, No DRM
Message:
Think about
this. Are you willing to kill your own business for the sake of Microsoft?
Are you willing to kowtow to the government and take away MY rights for money?
I will watch carefully to see which chips get produced with this technology.
I will not buy them. I will go to Mac if I have to. Let's see how Palladium
handles that. Or let's see how Palladium handles Linux.
Why don't you just
PUSH business toward open source technology.
I will find out who you are
markteting this chips to, and I will tell them also.
No more AMI BIOS for
me.
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 19:48:53 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: John82654@aol.com (John
Subject: our freedom
Message:
You should take notice we're
getting fed up!
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 20:49:27 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: Yanshosh@aol.com
Subject: DRI Enabled BIOS
Message:
Dear AMI,
I am just
writing to let you know that, even though I buy products with AMI software in
them right now, the moment that you start shipping DRM enabled chips, my
patronage, and the patronage of many other customenrs interested in fair use,
will stop. I have been pleased with your products and services over the last
few years, but this will be one step too far. Thank you and have a nice
day.
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 22:44:49 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: brian@tubhost.com (Brian
Subject: BOYCOTT TCPA HARDWARE
Message:
My company and any
of my affiliates and clients will be advised to boycott any chips manufactured
with TCPA or DRM implemented in them. Be advised that many will come to the
side of ownership rights for the people and this unconstitutional technology
will become obsolete and illegal if you continue to develop.
Brian
Coffee
Chief Technology Officer
TUBhost
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 07:58:33 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: sina!@cuodan.net (Sina
Subject: DRM CPUS!
Message:
Hi,
Just thought I'd write in
to say I wont be purchasing any DRM related hardware, ever.
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 07:59:56 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: david_j._thomas@irco.com
Subject: BIOS
Message:
will not buy any product
that has Palladium components
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:28:51 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: I don't want DRM on my computer !
Message:
I don't want DRM on my computer ! I will not buy any AMI
BIOS
or other stuff, and will advice others to refrain from buying
AMI
products, unless you drop your support for DRM, Palladium or TPM.
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 11:38:22 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: DRM
Message:
WELL WELL WELL. THIS IS SCIENCE DRAMA BECOMING REALITY. IF YOUR
A
TREKKER YOU WILL BE FAMILIAR WITH "THE BORG" .YOU WILL ALSO KNOW THAT
THESE
BEINGS "ASSIMILATE" OTHER BEINGS INTO THERE COLLECTIVE AGAINST
THERE WILL.GOOD
ONE GATES. HOW MUCH MONEY DO YOU NEED? DON'T WORRY, THE
BIGGER THEY ARE THE
HARDER FALL.YOU HAVE JUST SCREWED YOURSELF BILL. I
NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD SEE
THE DAY WHEN YOU WOULD DO THIS TO PEOPLE WHO
ARE YOUR BREAD AND BUTTER. I
THINK IT'S TIME TO USE OUR FEET AND BOYCOTT
MICROSOFT, AND AT THE SAME TIME
FIND COMPUTER GENIUSES TO MANUFACTURE A
NEW PC SYSTEM ON A GLOBAL SCALE, THATS
AS GOOD IF NOT BETTER THAN
WINDOWS! HOW DARE YOU AND WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE
BILL?
ANDREW COLLINS
MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA.
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 00:09:55 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: chris@ncafe.com (Chris
Subject: Palladium threatens privacy
Message:
I refuse to
purchase any product that enforces DRM on its users through hardware such as
Palladium. It's bad technology, it can easily be misused, and I will take my
business elsewhere.
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 05:09:06 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: johnbouser@aol.com (John
Subject: NO SPYWARE
Message:
I do not agree with what I am
hearing said about your company, as of late. I have been heavily involved in
the Computer industry since 1980. Now, my company WILL NOT BUY anymore AMI
products, unless you cease to develop computers detrimental to PERSONAL
FREEDOM.
Good Evening.
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 11:55:48 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: boycott
Message:
I will boycott AMI or any thing that has to do with AMI or
TRANSMETA.I feel that it is not right to try and take away a persons
privacy,and i will urge other peopel to take action against this atrocity
toward freedom!
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 16:30:29 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: frank@landc.be (Frank
Subject: Palladium
Message:
I will never let someone else
take control over my computers. If you endorse this kind of dictatorship then
I will never buy any hardware again from your company.
Best regards,
Frank
Montyne
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:04:53 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: crystaldawn_18@yahoo.com
Subject: Boycott
Message:
I find it, at best,
apprehensible that you would choose to attempt to control and limit personal
freedom through our use of the internet. So little is left as a free medium
of speech and thought, that I cannot stand idly by as you attempt to reign in
this last liberty. Hence forth, I shall boycott all products related to or
produced by your company--due to the inception of Palladium and Palladium
enabling BIOS. I am taking steps to ensure that others follow suit, as so few
are aware of this. I must advise that you choose to rethink your position, as
I cannot imagine that you've consider the full implications of such a
device.
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 19:17:25 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: shamanix@gmx.de
Subject: AMBIOS8 and TM5800
Message:
I was apalled to read
that you are going to manufacture these chips with pervasive technology. I
will never buy anything with these chips on it, and make sure every single
person I know does so too. I will not buy ANY products made by AMI or
Transmeta if these chips are produced, for the sake of a free world without
this sort of technology.
-Tommy
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 07:27:43 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: Syndael@excite.com
Subject: AMI/DRM
Message:
As a consumer,
I refuse to ever buy a computer chip, prossesor, or any software giving the
ability for anyone else to run my programs or snoop in my computer.
As a
builder of private high powered pc.'s I will NEVER build a system that I know
to have those abilities. I will quit my job and flip burgers first. As Is I
dislike Microsoft greatly for their programs, that give access to the personal
computers of the public. As Is I refuse to uses anything above Win 98 on my
pc. And further more, I am working on my own version of linux, One that is not
corrupted by burocratic dogma. Once complete I have no problem with giving it
away. But then again, I am only one of thousands, perhaps, millions, who think
this way.
Computers,and The Internet, are the domain of the new aeon. If
it is bought ,sold, and servered up; to be taxed, regulated, restricted, and
spied upon...
the value of the internet is nulafied. We, the intelegent
public of the world can and will develop our own "internet" or we will destroy
the present one (remove our computers ability to interact on it.), before
letting it become our own personal noose. If the internet loses popularity,
computer sales all but end. With no consumers to buy your products, where will
your company be then? In the gutter, or in the lime light...?
Become the
first company that vows that NONE of your products will EVER, have software
built into them that alows goverment, corperation, or priviate spying. By
doing so you will gain the respect of all of this generation, of the computer
literate,
and by doing so, secure the buisness of the future generations of
consumers. They will be the mental equvelent of todays supper hacker. If you
don't believe me, ask any 12yr. old how to run their computer, how to do most
any thing on their pc......They know more than you may think.
-Syndael V.
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:41:01 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: drumgeist1@junglist.com (David
Subject: palladium...
Message:
I will never buy a system
with such a thing incorporated.
That is all,
David Horwitz
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 23:09:04 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: Palladium
Message:
I will not buy
systems with your BIOS if you incorporate Palladium, I would rather keep a
computer for 20 years, no matter how out-dated.
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003
To:
From: 2radical4u@insightbb.com
Subject: Invasive BIOS
Message:
I don't intend to
purchase or use equipment that contains your (AMI) systems BIOS.
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 16:38:07 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: therocker@comcast.net
Subject: DRM
Message:
I
just want to let you know
that I will not buy any computer that uses any
technique (DRM/TPM is the issue
in question right now) that invades my privacy
or otherwise runs programs on
my computer that I am not in control of. Like
most computer-savvy people, I'm
the one in charge of buying computers for my
friends and relatives, and have
bought a number of computers lately. I'm sure
someone will sell a computer
that doesn't have this junk, and I'll be buying
it, along with an amazing
number of other Americans. Remember the country we
live in and the values we
stand for?
Remember what happened with the Pentium
III? You know this will
have exactly the same outcome. Please don't make us
(and yourself) suffer
first
-K. Tyler
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 17:19:54 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: kevinernste@yahoo.com
Subject: PALLADIUM
Message:
To AMI -
I am just
writing to urge you to resist the temptations of so called "Trusted"
technologies such as Palladium/DRM which promise security but end up
restricting freedom. It's goal is to further secure an already closed
marketplace. Companies like Microsoft have done it before, continue to do it,
and with this new effort show no signs of changing their tune.
I would urge
you once again to reconsider your participation in this goal, keeping in mind
the best interests of your customers and the freedoms which new technologies
promise and are able to best deliver when they are left in the hands of
users.
Kevin Ernste
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 17:27:17 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: dto@gnu.org (David
Subject: Palladium/TCPA personal statement
Message:
I
refuse to buy any product with DRM hardware. TCPA/Palladium chips are spyware
and I will boycott any company which attempts to force them on uninformed
consumers. A CPU with DRM enforcement circuitry is by definition NOT a
general-purpose computer, and TCPA/Palladium is a transparent attempt to
restrict the consumer's freedom to compute via a bait-and-switch technique.
Customers are not in a position to appreciate the difference between a truly
general-purpose computer and a DRM-crippled chip whose purpose is to grant
control of one's computer to others. Though the DMCA is unlikely to survive
Constitutional scrutiny for much longer, while it is still on the books it can
be combined with TCPA to essentially outlaw free software itself. As a member
of the free-software community, as a student-teacher, and as a computer
scientist I will oppose TCPA and Palladium with every legal means at my
disposal.
And I will be vocal about it. I am in training to become a teacher
of computer science. One of the things I did more recently was to tutor a
class in Computability Theory. In this course, tomorrow's students are taught
to understand what a general-purpose computer is. I will explain to them why
DRM-enforcement CPU's do not truly fit the definition.
I help people make
computer buying decisions on a regular basis, because I'm the local "computer
guy." So not only will I refuse to buy devices from AMI myself---I will also
recommend vigorously against the use of any DRM-enabled hardware products and
will tell people to stay away from the companies who produce such inferior
products. There are thousands of other "local computer guys" such as myself,
and they'll all say the same.
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 00:47:35 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: tpreitzel@hotmail.com
Subject: DRM & Palladium Initiatives
Message:
Sigh,
I can't reiterate the number of times that I've seen
liasions between government and corporate entities lately, and the result of
ALL of them is control. I DON'T want more of it. I DON'T want the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act, DRM, Palladium, or anything else that smacks of
government and corporate cooperation. Needless to say, I don't want anything
that even remotely smacks of the aforementioned including the AMI BIOS 8.
Frankly, the AMI BIOS 8 is not only bad business, but bad marketing and
publicity as well. I currently use an AMI BIOS, but what lies in AMI's future
if nonsense like their BIOS #8 continues forward? I would say that a black
market will develop which doesn't use such garbage.
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003
To:
From: shredder@onlinehome.de
Subject: Palladiprotect
Message:
Dear Sirs,
i am
very concerned about your Plans of implementing the so-called Palladium / TCPA
- Technology in your future Products.
The control-functions, that can be
enabeled with this technology are absolutely inacceptable for any home and
buisiness - user and they are in Germany unlawfull.
I run a small Business,
that helps users to find adaequate hardware for their purposes and to set up
and run small networks.
>From now on i will strongly recommend my customers,
only to buy hardware, that is guaranteed to be free of TCPA/Palladium -
Implementations of any kind.
Please remember, that there are still
alternatives out there and that even outdated hardware works good enough to
enable independence of new hardware with unwanted controlling/espionage -
features.
please consider to stop and / or radically alter your plans
regarding TCPA / Palladium.
thank you in advance, have a good day
Hartmut
Noack/Berlin/Fh/Germ.
http://www.linuxuse.de
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 07:29:50 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: kgreen@hoovers.com
Subject: Stop Palladium
Message:
I oppose the
Palladium.
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 08:54:18 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: no to palladium
Message:
I will not buy any products with palladium installed.
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 10:50:10 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: lprentice@email.net
Subject: Stop DRM Now!
Message:
I am deeply
disturbed that your company intends to support technologies, DRM and
Palladium, that seriously erode my privacy, fair use of content, and control
over my computing environments.
I will not purchase, recommend or use any
product incorporating these technologies.
Best wishes,
Lloyd R. Prentice
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:00:12 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: drza007@comcast.net
Subject: No DRM
Message:
I will not accept Palladium/TCPA
enabled hardware
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 18:13:11 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: pereira@speakeasy.org
Subject: yes to Open Source software
Message:
Please
ensure that Open SOurce software such
as GNU/Linux can run without problems on
any
chip you guys make.
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:30:57 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: recullen@cox.net (Robert
Subject: Palladium and TCPA
Message:
As an IT-savvy, and
specifically an IT security-savvy individual, I am hereby informing you that I
will boycott any technology or product that you and/or your technology
partners may sell, produce or share with any entity that has anything in the
least to do with enabling TCPA, Palladium or any as yet developed technology
that purports to implement and accomplish what the TCPA, Palladium and similar
technologies state to accomplish.
In addition to myself boycotting your
products and those of your peers developing same or like technologies, I will
be informing not only my friends, but my co-workers, who will likely also
boycott any efforts and subsequent products produced by AMI and others that
are affiliated with the TCPA, Palladium or any as yet developed technology
that has the same goals.
Sincerely,
Robert
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 17:28:59 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: rocco556@netscape.net
Subject: Content control
Message:
Greetings,
I'm 40 years
old and have never been in an organized protest. But I will talk to every
computer person and inform anyone I run into about the truth behind "content
control"
Your will not be able to disguise the real motivations for this
tecnology. I will stay informed and will boycott any Hardware or Software that
moves in this direction. Of course, this also will effect any computers that I
set up for others.
Sincerly,
Rocco
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:22:47 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: audra.morrison@uc.edu
Subject: Palladium is wrong
Message:
Dear sir or
madam,
I am just one user of computers; however, in my 38 years on this
planet I have owned approximately ten computers. In my job, I am responsible
for the purchase (annually) of 10-50 systems. I will NOT purchase a system
that promotes or allows Digital Rights Management or enables Microsoft's
Palladium system.
If I want to read a file on my computer, that's my
business. If I want to listen to a CD on my computer, that's my business too.
The ultimate aim of DRM is to control people; however, in the case of the
Internet and computers, it is impossible to control all of the people all of
the time. We will always find a way to freedom; it would be better if
companies were trying to work with the consumers who use their products
instead of trying to lie to them, deceive them, and, yes, defraud them. I want
to be able to use my computer the way I use a notebook and a pen, the way I
use a television and a VCR, the way I use a PDA - in short, I insist on having
final control over the products I purchase. I will never buy a Transmeta-built
CPU chip, nor will I buy an AMI BIOS motherboard.
Thank you for
listening,
Audra Morrison
Dept of Aerospace Engineering
University of
Cincinnati
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:29:16 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: kellie@mrks.org (Kellie
Subject: DRM chips
Message:
Boy, just when I thought
Microsoft was finally going to have to behave like a responsible corporate
entity, I read about the new Palladium/DRM technology.
Guess I'm going to
have to switch to Mac when I buy my next computer.
Kellie Matthews
Boulder,
Colorado
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:28:34 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: mitch.b@dplanet.ch
Subject: Too bad about AMI
Message:
I used to like
your products.
But since you started endorsing DRM, I've changed my mind.
I
will personally boycott all your products, and will advise everyone I know
against them, until you change your policy.
Best regards, MB
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 00:28:51 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: kyorea@aol.com
Subject:
Message:
I will not buy this
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003
To:
From: __@us.net
Subject: no to
Message:
I will not buy systems with your BIOS if you
implement palladiu m!!!
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 21:32:19 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: jsp@brandeis.edu (Jason
Subject: Stop TPM products
Message:
You have no right to
try to invade my privacy with TPM hardware, or by manufacturing any hardware
that will assist Microsoft in creating its Palladium system. These products
take control and ownership of computer systems out of the hands of consumers
and give it over to the manufacturer. Do you honestly think it's good
business to try to force control onto consumers? You don't respect your
buyers. You don't respect the market that keeps you alive. You do not own
this market and you do not own my or anybody else's computer. I for one
refuse to buy any products containing DRM or TPM technology. And because your
company is party to this evil, I refuse to buy any AMI products at all until
you forego manufacture of TPM hardware such as the AMIBIOS8 chip. I hope your
company can develop some respect for its consumers - until it does you've lost
one.
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 14:15:57 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: Maestro@knology.net
Subject: PALLADIUM BIOS
Message:
This is the worst idea
ever.I will not purchase ANY of your products again.
Regards,
Josh Holman
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 16:37:49 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: lct_loc@gmx.net
Subject: TCPA
Message:
Hi,
I've just heard that AMI has
some Chips including TCPA
/ whatever you call this shit in their sales
program? Well, then: This was DEFINTITLY the last AMI Chip I've
bought.....(and yes, I'm one of those who actually know how to tell...). AMI
Bios is a great NoNo from now on, cause you can never be sure, what surprises
lurk inside the f***ing bios chip....
"You can't use <that tool> because it
was not digitally signed by microsoft. Press OK to flush your rights down the
toilett. <OK>"
No thanks....
And don't tell me about the many advantages of
TCPA / Palladium. There has been encryption around before (Smart-Cards for
example), and it was working well.
An ex-customer
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003
To:
From: rscariah@mail.com
Subject: No to Plladiaum
Message:
Will not buy
systems with your BIOS if you support Palladium.
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003
To:
From: max_da_killah@freenet.de
Subject: NO PALLADIUM NO TCPA
Message:
I won´t let
you take control of the hardware and software i would install in my
PC!!!
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 19:52:24 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: curzio@hotmail.com
Subject: Boycott on TCPA/Palladium
Message:
Writing to inform you that I will not purchase a computer that
has TCPA/Palladium installed, and I am convincing everyone I know to do the
same.
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 21:28:52 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: kyzmiaz@erols.com
Subject: AMIBIOS8
Message:
I will not buy a
computer with a AMIBIOS8 chip. I will make another choice, if available or
use pre AMIBIOS8 equipment.
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:33:17 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: Do not produce
Message:
Keep your DRM crippled CPU chip!!!!!!
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:51:39 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: NO to Paladium
Message:
Paladium
is SHIT, I never will use palladium
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:56:38 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: vfletch@easystreet.com
Subject: I Say NO to DRM, TCPM
Message:
I will
never buy or recommend a system that has been crippled in this manner. I will
further advise everyone I know to be aware of what the future holds if these
become the standard.
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:02:44 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: macb@yahoo.com (CMB,
Subject: To all TCPA Signatories
Message:
Computers
need to be "general purpose". The reason that we use the computers we do
today is that other more restrictive offerings failed. As soon as the
neighbor down the street can do something with their computer that I can't do
with mine, I'll want to get what he has. Change "down the street" to "in
another country" and you will understand why this effort will not only fail,
but hurt the US economy in the process. We are already to the point where
people here order computers from Japan and Taiwan because they have more
features than those offered here. With so little of the actual production of
hardware taking place here you can be sure that there will be a TCPA/Palladium
version of everything for Americans, and a "normal" one for everyone else.
There will almost certainly be a healthy black market for the un-neutered
equipment here too. Seems like everyone will benefit except the consumer
doesn't it? Perfect!
TCPA/Palladium is a trap. While in the long run it
will hurt everyone in America, in the short term it will benefit a few of its
signatories. Microsoft will benefit most, because it's software will be the
primary "enforcer" of whatever restrictions TCPA/Palladium needs to place on
user's activities. Thus, providers of other products will once again be the
water boy for the Microsoft war machine against other operating systems. To
be sure, TCPA/Palladium might slow down software piracy and illegal music
trading, but that benefit will be more than compensated for by the fact that
ONE COMPANY will be the primary keyholder for all of this content, and you had
better bet that they will extract more than their fair share of the booty. It
will be one more expense for the record companies to pass on as overhead to
the consumer. As it is, hardware makers have to PAY Microsoft to certify
their products for compliance. This pyramid scheme will now trickle down to
every software developer as well. Now maybe at last Microsoft will be able to
lower the prices for Windows and Office (give them away even) as they will
collect money for every other product sold, hardware or software in this
country. For technology company executives, did you make money backing
yourselves out of the Pentium ID number fiasco? If not, then you probably
won't make money from this either. Did you strike it rich going down the
proprietary Rambus memory dead end? In the short term Rambus benefited, but
in the long run even they were hurt by their own wheeling and dealing. (To
record company executives: Are you TOTALLY naive, or does it just seem that
way? You DO realize that Microsoft, and not you, will control music
distribution in this country if this scheme were to work right?)
The "good"
news is this: Just as governments of other countries (as well as state and
local governments) are having doubts about continuing to pay through the nose
for Microsoft products, while at the same time having to pay the burden of
buggy, insecure code, they will no doubt have even graver doubts about running
a box that is locked up, knowing that the keys are held by a company in
Seattle. Linux will continue to thrive, if not here, then elsewhere and in
the end, we will buy hardware, software and know-how from countries that
remain FREE. The "brain drain" that has given this country an edge since it's
founding can certainly be made to work in reverse, and it will by ideas such
as TCPA/Palladium that cause that to happen. It would appear that a
brain-drain of sorts has already taken place in the boardrooms of the other
companies signing on to this.
In short: It's a bad idea. It won't achieve
it's objective. Most companies that participate will not benefit, but be
harmed. In the end, American technology will be right back where we are now
having lost much momentum.
I have 6 computers of relatively modern vintage.
They will run Linux and do everything I need them too for the rest of my days.
I have hundreds of CDs in my collection and much of the music being put out
today is crap. I don't NEED your new computers and I don't NEED your new
encrypted music, software or anything else. Make my freekin day. You'll only
hurt yourselves.
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:11:20 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: danny_13_13@hotmail.co
Subject: DRM, TCPA, Palladium
Message:
I will
not buy any motherboards or computers that introduce DRM, TCPA, or any
Palladium features. I will tell everyone I know not to buy computers that have
these features. this new technology will only upset consumers and vastly limit
what a user can do. This link- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
explains how this technology will be disastorous for new companies and
beneficial for already monopolistic companies. I will boycottt all products
with this new technology and encourge others not to buy these products. This
is taking our rights away. America is founded on the rights of its people. I
will fight this.
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 05:15:53 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: Palladium, TCPA, DRM,
Message:
Trust is something, you cannot implement! It is a
decision everyone has to make for him-/herself. And it is heavily influenced
by treacherous behavior!
I will not tolerate any technology interfering with
my (and solely mine) right of deciding which soft- and/or hardware runs on/in
any of my computers.
I may only be responsible for buying the hard- and
software for a small company with about 10 computers. I may as well only be
the most important instance for decisions concerning computers for almost all
of my friends and relatives.
Twenty-five to, more likely in the next years
thirty-five computers bought (or not bought) due to my advice, may not be the
world, but as more and more peolple aware the consequences of such a
technology, we can say it with the words of people of the former German
Democratic Republic:
"Wir sind das Volk!" - We are the people! Or in your
case: We are the customers!
I hope you'll soon drop your plans of enforcing
such technologies or, hard but true, suffer the consequences!
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 23:08:23 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: cat@thestonecutters.net
Subject: No DRM!
Message:
Hi:
I will never buy a
computer with Palladium or any other similar system in it, nor will I ever run
an OS that contains anything of the kind. I am alerting everyone I know to
the danger of these systems.
Thank you.
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 06:06:54 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From:
Subject: DRM/TPM
Message:
Folks,
I
just want to
let you know that I will not buy any computer that uses any
technique (DRM/TPM
is the issue in question right now) that invades my privacy
or otherwise runs
programs on my computer that I am not in control of. Like
most computer-savvy
people, I'm the one in charge of buying computers for my
friends and
relatives, and have bought a number of computers lately. I'm sure
someone
will sell a computer that doesn't have this junk, and I'll be buying
it, along
with an amazing number of other people.
Remember what happened with the
Pentium
III? You know this will have exactly the same outcome. Please don't
make us
(and yourself) suffer first.
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:11:24 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: deguerre00@yahoo.com
Subject: TCPA/Palladium/DRM
Message:
Who "Trusts"
it? No-one.
Who'll buy it? No-one who is aware of what you're attempting.
I'll be boycotting any chip with Palladium architecture and buying from your
competitor(or no-one at all), and talking to everyone I know about it until it
goes the way of every mal-adapted and corrupt thing.
Sincerely yours,
Justin St.Germain
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 22:46:08 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: kd7gab@yahoo.com
Subject: Palladium
Message:
If your company produces chips
enabled with palladium I personally and my friends will boycott all of your
products and I am going to help spread this particular information to the best
of my ability!!!!!
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 15:50:22 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: Kenjita@bastardanime.com
Subject: TPM Bios
Message:
I'm boycotting all new
hardware that plans to implement your shifty BIOS; the current computer I
bought, as well as all my previous computers, has an AMI bios, and that's a
shame as I quite enjoy the stability. Congrats on losing a returning
customer.
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:02:43 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: Screwoff@yousuck.com
Subject: Palladium
Message:
I will boycott your god
foresaken technology until the end of time, what your doing is wrong and I
will never accept it! I hope you devils all burn for trying to spy on the
people.
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 16:30:07 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From:
Subject: No DRM enabled Bios
Message:
instead of spying on peoples personal lives why dont you try
making a bios set that works correctly.
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:19:58 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From:
Subject: Palladium & DRM CPU Chips
Message:
This is ludicrous. I will completely boycott any and all hardware
infested with this panoptic chip, and will spread the word to everyone and
anyone so they will do the same. America is not a dictatorship. Freedom and
personal privacy is a right.
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:51:20 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: anon@anon.anon
Subject: We will not buy TCPA / DRM hardware or software
Message:
We will not buy TCPA / DRM hardware or software
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 21:28:28 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From:
Subject: TCPA Garbage
Message:
You must be
pretty stupid to try and implement anything releated to the TCPA. If you want
my money, you'll remove the TCPA crap from your hardware and vow NEVER to
implement it, even under the threat of death. Otherwise, I hope you go out of
business.
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 22:01:32 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From:
Subject: DRM
Message:
Well i've nothing
against my last computer having an AMI bios, but be sure my next one wont !
I
definitely dont want my bios to prevent me to control my own computer. be sure
i'll do my best to tell other people not to buy mothercards using your
bios
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 17:28:50 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: ddetina@cogeco.ca (Don
Subject: boycott
Message:
I will not purchase systems with
your bios. I will spread the word. Your product and those of your customers
will be boycotted en masse. This will spell the demise of your company.
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 07:14:35 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: john@hotmail.com
Subject: Big Borther
Message:
For Profit you sell your souls, that's
OK that you sell what you own. But you can't sell that you don't own; OUR
RIGHTS to be not Watched 'Big Brothered'. At some point you also realize that
you helped world be a worser place but it'll be too LATE.
Act NOW, Stop
PALLADIUM...
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 18:05:48 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: percy@freenet.co.uk (Neil
Subject: Palladium, TCPA and DRM
Message:
I will never buy any
hardware or hardware/software that uses any Palladium, TCPA or DRM technology,
and I will use my position as 'computer knowledgable' guy to persuade anyone I
know or who comes to me for advice on computer purchases to do the same.
Do
you want to loose the custom of everyone who knows even a tiny bit about
computers ?
Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 19:28:51 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From:
Subject: Registering concern
Message:
I
would like to make plain my objections to your company incorporating elements
of the Palladium platform within your products. If you should choose to
proceed with this ill-judged decision then you will lose a customer who buys
100+ motherboards a year based on your products and I will make every effort
to ensure that colleagues/associates also source their materials
elsewhere.
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 00:34:36 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: macphluffer@yahoo.com
Subject: DRM CPU chips
Message:
For your information, I
will not buy any product that has the afore mentioned chip in it.
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 00:35:56 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: macphluffer@yahoo.com
Subject: AMI bios
Message:
For your information, I will
not buy any product that has the afore mentioned bios in it.
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 05:41:27 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: r.strang@ntlworld.com
Subject: Idea
Message:
Thought you should like to know
I will not
buy systems that will be using your BIOS due ot the TCPA situation.
You just
lost a happy cusotmer.
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 20:31:30 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: av@total-knowledge.com
Subject: Wasted Resources
Message:
Hello,
DRM
technologies intrude too far in our homes, undermine too openly our civil
liberties, although there is some pro-copyright rationale behind them. I
think, DRM haven't got to much of resistance from general public for some
technical reasons. If implemented it will meet significantly more of public
outcry than it currently does. You, manufacturers, your children and
grand-children, judges and justices, policemen and lawmakers, military and
government, all will have to use personal spying-on-them computers. This
situation just cannot last forever. Sooner or later DRM technologies will be
repealed and all resources spent on their development will be simply wasted.
Regards,
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 19:50:44 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: slavko.stipic@gmx.net
Subject: TCPA / TPM
Message:
I won't buy any systems
(mainboards etc.)with your future
BIOS releases supporting TCPA/TPM hardware!
Got That?
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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003
To:
From: sam1442@hotmail.com
Subject: DRM Review
Message:
Richmonde IT Campus boyycots your DRM
Anti-Privacy Technology.
You are in Violation of the U.N. Charter 34.7 on
Human Survailance.
You are in Violation of the United States Constitution
under Freedom for Espionage.
You are in Violation in Creating Voyeurism
Technology on your own people and your children will suffer with it for
generations.
Watch Equilibrium 2002 DVD movie and you will see.
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 21:23:53 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: jamzen@theworld.com (Jim
Subject: PALLADIUM
Message:
Don't even THINK of putting that
shit on any machine that I buy. I will tear it out by the pins and cram it
down your corporate throat.
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 13:25:11 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: monro@xtra.co.nz (Mike
Subject: Palladium
Message:
Fuck Bill Gates & Palladium. Don't start
building AMI
BIOS which support Palladium.
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 21:35:29 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: fakeemail@noemail.co.nz
Subject: Rescue our freedom
Message:
Palladium, the Fritz chip,
TCPA makes us to slaves.
Please stop supporting a sad future.
Maybe you have
children too.
Give them FREEDOM
Thank you
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 03:36:25 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From:
Subject: DRM
Message:
I will not buy any hardware
containing drm technology
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:22:58 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: m.xaver@gmx.at (Martin
Subject: AMIBIOS8 & TPM/TCPA
Message:
"AMIBIOS® enables secure and
trusted computing with a TCPA-compliant module"
No thanks! I won't even use
willingly any AMIBIOS8-positive Computer, and for sure, I won't buy one.
What
the TCPA persues is obviously an unprecedented attempt on the personal
freedoms of individual computer owners, in a terrifying dimension, and I won't
support any software or hardware that implements or supports these
technologies in any way.
Though you announce, that TPM may be disabled through
the bios, this won't help much, if one day, systems simply won't run without
this option on.
Therefore I would urge you to abandon any affiliations to
these technologies, as they clearly mean a huge step to the undermining of
personal freedoms and privacy.
Thank you,
yours,
Martin Xaver
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:45:06 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: nisse83@telia.com (jon
Subject: no way
Message:
STOP THAT STUPID PALLADIUM THING YOU ARE
PUTTING IN YOUR SOFTWARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:09:29 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: hadiez@cox.net (Larry
Subject: AMIBIOS8
Message:
AMI introduces an AMIBIOS8 <---- I will
never buy nor recomend your "trusted" bios chip. Spy-ware is not for me
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 08:10:53 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: Charmer236@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: palladium
Message:
Stop this bullshit
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:01:38 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: sadingman@comcast.com
Subject: No Palladium
Message:
The PC is not Microsoft's
property, if this initative goes, I will not buy anymore AMI hardware and drop
Windows for Linux. I am not alone.
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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:28:14 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: therocker@mindspring.com
Subject: palladium
Message:
stop palladium.
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 12:57:44 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: curf3w@giga4u.de (Tobias
Subject: No DRM on my computer
Message:
I
just want to let you know
that I will not buy any computer that uses any
technique (DRM/TPM is the issue
in question right now) that invades my privacy
or otherwise runs programs on
my computer that I am not in control of. Like
most computer-savvy people, I'm
the one in charge of buying computers for my
friends and relatives, and have
bought a number of computers lately. I'm sure
someone will sell a computer
that doesn't have this junk, and I'll be buying
it, along with an amazing
number of other Americans. Remember the country we
live in and the values we
stand for?
Remember what happened with the Pentium
III? You know this will
have exactly the same outcome. Please don't make us
(and yourself) suffer
first.
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:28:07 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: abdnldson@netscape.net
Subject: DRM
Message:
"I just want to let you know that I
will not buy any computer that uses any
technique (DRM/TPM is the issue in
question right now) that invades my privacy
or otherwise runs programs on my
computer that I am not in control of." this is a quote from an E-mail that
Michael Wolf sent you. I am of the same opinion and will not by hardward that
supports your new bios.
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 18:27:28 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: plastictoe@msn.com (Adam
Subject: CPU Chips
Message:
I will NOT buy systems with your bios if
you produce the AMIBIOS8 and or TM5800. I will boycott all technology that
enables TCPA and Palladium technology on my computer. I am appalled that such
a respected company would produce such a chip to restrict my rights, as well
as give others access to my computer.
Sincerely,
Adam Goff
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:59:57 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: sime1@hotmail.com
Subject: Bad
Message:
I will not buy systems with your
bios.
Keep your DRM crippled CPU chips.
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:59:00 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: paladyr07@hotmail.com
Subject: PALLADIUM
Message:
I will not buy systems with your
BIOS!
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 04:27:19 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: matthias.kiechle@web.de
Subject: Don't want to buy TCPM
Message:
I don't want to
and I`m not going to buy such a chip or other things which have this crippled
chips in it.
Only Me is having full control over my computer!!!
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:40:15 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From:
Subject: errrr noooooo!!!
Message:
u probably got loads of
emails about this subject but i have to aggree with them. Your doing a really
bad job, which end up, with not only your reputation but the industry going
down the drain. In reality that will cost more then your partnership with
this deal, and you know it. So please dont make this mistake and dont support
the deal, privacy is important, if taken away we have nothing.
Thank You
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:45:01 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: gharper@maine.rr.com (G
Subject: Palladium and TCPA
Message:
If you produce AMIBIOS8 chips, I
and every one of the hundreds of people whom I have contact with on a
professional and personal basis in the IS/IT field here in the US will be
fully aware of the consequences of this technology, and I will personally
boycott any technology that enables TCPA and Palladium technology, and will
promote to the best of my ability this behaviour in all of the peoples I
encounter and work with.
RESPECT YOUR CUSTOMERS AND RESPECT THE TECHNOLOGY. I
am no conspiracy theorist, but there is only a certain amount of control and
person or group of persons should have over the technology that the entire
WORLD will use. PLEASE don't contribute to the destruction of our personal and
technological freedom.
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 12:56:43 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: adamo@adamo.org (Adam
Subject: The AMIBIOS8...
Message:
Hello,
If you produce AMIBIOS8
chips, I and every one of the hundreds of people whom I have contact with on a
professional and personal basis in the IS/IT field here in the US will be
fully aware of the consequences of this technology, and I will personally
boycott any technology that enables TCPA and Palladium technology, and will
promote to the best of my ability this behaviour in all of the peoples I
encounter and work with.
RESPECT YOUR CUSTOMERS AND RESPECT THE TECHNOLOGY.
I am no conspiracy theorist, but there is only a certain amount of control and
person or group of persons should have over the technology that the entire
WORLD will use. PLEASE don't contribute to the destruction of our personal and
technological freedom.
Thanks,
Adam Overlock
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003
To:
From: drakhen_rdx@hotmail.com
Subject: Hello palladium fools.
Message:
We're not going to buy
into your censorship technology. I know at least 20 people personally that
I've talked to about this, and they all feel the same way, if not more
passionate on this issue. There are countless more on the internet.
The more
you push, the more we'll resist. Not that this email matters to you
anyway...hahaha.
Good luck. You're going to need it.
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003
To:
From: hi@hillinteractive.net
Subject: DRM Hardware
Message:
You can be sure I will NOT
purchase hardware with DRM wired into it!
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 02:35:15 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: taime002@free.fr (Aimé
Subject: No TCPA and Palladium
Message:
I will refuse to use any
technology that enables TCPA and Palladium technology on my computer.
Aimé
Thierry
Software engineer.
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 21:19:00 -0400 (EDT)
To:
From: clazerb@yahoo.it
Subject: NO to PALLADIUM
Message:
I will not buy systems with your
BIOS
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 13:21:34 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: tasadar@cox.net
Subject:
Message:
I will never buy a computer that makes use
of Palladium, or DRM. I believe that I bought the computer, so I should be
able to run what ever program I want to.
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 13:39:35 -0500 (EST)
To:
From:
Subject: What's in it for
Message:
So what's in this DRM deal for you? A permanent friendship
with Microsoft?
Good for you. I hope Microsoft helps put food on your
families' plates, because a lot of "consumers" would rather they starve than
ever contribute any of their money toward your
company.
Sincerely,
Noncustomer
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 13:33:42 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: d.schaepler@mailware.ag
Subject: DRM
Message:
I will not buy any DRM / TCPA Products
AND YOU
SHOULD NOT PRODUCE THEM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Think about it
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 20:28:21 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: slimak@slimak.info (Jan
Subject: Amibios8 and TCPA module
Message:
I will not buy any
computer with Amibios, because AMI supports TCPA. I am resposible for hardware
orders in two small companies in Poland.
Of course, I will also inform as
many people as possible, that AMI if infringing their freedom with TCPA.
I
hope, that AMI will stop supporting TCPA.
Jan Górski
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2003
To:
From: WHendrick23456@aol.com
Subject: No DRM!
Message:
We, (the personal computing
community), have a right to own, and susequently use as such, personal
computers. If you produce these DRM chips, you violate this right. As such,
those who know about this will make all attempts to boycott this. Please, I
implore you, do not give companies the ability to invade our personal
computers!
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 03:05:15 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: flipper@gmx.de (tom
Subject: No DRM on my computer
Message:
No DRM on my computer
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 21:23:11 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: services@iceteks.com
Subject: PALLADIUM
Message:
I just heard the horrible thing
about this so called PALLADIUM that will be coming out. This is to let you
know that I will use my best effort to make sure this product is NOT sold
ANYWHERE by boycutting it, and making sure it is not available in my store.
If worse comes to worse I will boycott all companies involved.
I advise
your company thinks twice about this horrible nazi system, it will
backfire.
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 22:29:25 -0500 (EST)
To:
From: b00sh@hotmail.com
Subject: I DONT WANT THAT SHIT
Message:
FREEDOM GOD DAMNIT
FREEDOM! I AINT BUYING YOUR FUCKING SHIT WE ARE IN AMERICA HAHA BITCHES GO
SUCK BILL GATES DICK CAUSE I AINT BUYING IT! HAHA U LOSE!
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To: Ami
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