Nvidia panicking about Microsoft cutting it out of the picture in the future design of the Xbox 2 need panic on its own no longer.
Others, including execs at chip giant Intel, and Via and AMD too, may shiver their timbers when the suits read the following.
Because the sources that told me Microsoft wanted to cut out Nvidia now inform me that the Great Satan of Software is really going for it and want to cut out not just graphics chip makers but X86 suppliers too.
My jaw dropped when I heard this from Jill. What was the evidence for this amazing story?
She said that the Microsofties looking after the Xbox 2 have posted a RFW for a DX-9/DX-10 microcode engine.
News source: The Inquirer
Others, including execs at chip giant Intel, and Via and AMD too, may shiver their timbers when the suits read the following.
Because the sources that told me Microsoft wanted to cut out Nvidia now inform me that the Great Satan of Software is really going for it and want to cut out not just graphics chip makers but X86 suppliers too.
My jaw dropped when I heard this from Jill. What was the evidence for this amazing story?
She said that the Microsofties looking after the Xbox 2 have posted a RFW for a DX-9/DX-10 microcode engine.
News source: The Inquirer
Shenanigans
The Register reader Haavard Pettersen's recent experiences suggest someone had indeed tampered with people's computers to prevent them from using Morpheus.
When Pettersen tied to use an older version of Morpheus (on a Windows 98 partition), which he hadn't used since before Morpheus went down, he discovered to his surprise that it still worked.
In XP, he couldn't get either old Morpheus or Preview Edition to work, incidentally.
Russ Spooner, a security consultants at Interrorem and former Morpheus user, confirms Pettersen's experience.
"Clearly the Fast Track client part of the software (used in KaZaA, Grokster and Morpheus) has a backdoor in it that allows the knowledgeable few to fire special packets at clients logged into the Fast Track network which will enable them to modify registry settings," Spooner told us.
"It would appear that for a period of time they had effectively a login script sitting on the authentication servers that basically said 'if (client==morpheus ){ modify registry}'," he added.
The offending login script has now been removed, he notes, so now the original clients work fine, "just so long as they were not exposed to the evil pathogen".
Sharman Network Services is yet to respond to this latest allegation, and we'll fill you in if and when it does.
Both Morpheus and KaZaA are embroiled in copyright violation lawsuits brought against them by the music industry. Yesterday StreamCast Networks announced plans to use digital rights management technology called CintoA to protect the copyright of independent artists, while allowing its users to continue sharing free files.
Whether this will appease its critics, such as the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America, seems doubtful.
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