I would hope this constitute anticompetitive behavior. If only intel can decrypt movies and studios only make them available for intel procs, this can seriously hurt all other chipmakers.
And its not that tech runs just from Intel to AMD.
x64 is AMD tech that got adopted by Intel. Monolith multi-core technology is also something Intel adopted from AMD.
Intel wouldn't dare destroying AMD. Since AMD got created for sole reason to prevent Intel from being torn apart. But Intel will do everything to keep AMD's market share somewhere comfortably below 20%.
Well we're talking about Intel and AMD and I thought we should also remember there are more chip makers out there that would have an interest in decoding encrypted content.
But I seriously doubt that ARM chipmakers not getting access to DRM core would constitute anti-competitive behaviour.
Especially since these are completely different markets who do most stuff differently. Thats what I wanted to point out - if they want their chips to play DRM content they'll have to negotiate it themselves with the Hollywood. I also strongly suspect that this is not an exclusive pact.
Since nowadays content producers are very well aware that more and more (probably the majority?) of content is consumed via - non x86 architecture devices.
How is this different from Netflix only making movies available via Windows DRM? Netflix has expanded, but initially it was the same deal.
And it remains entirely at Netflix's discretion whom they trust. I agree it's a Bad Thing, but the content industry is entirely predicated on artificial monopolies.
If I'm not mistaken, Netflix uses multiple types of DRM (for iOS, PCs, Wii, PS3, etc). The Windows DRM is for PCs and the XBOX, possible some others (Roku might use it, I think the NXP-chip uses Microsoft DRM).
This is actually the problem with Netflix on Android - Android doesn't have any DRM standard, so it's up to the hardware manufacturer to include it.
And even so, this is just another DRM tool that Netflix will use, unless they opt to only use Intel's built in DRM (which would be strange given the wide competition Intel's hardware DRM faces from TPMs and the like.
And its not that tech runs just from Intel to AMD.
x64 is AMD tech that got adopted by Intel. Monolith multi-core technology is also something Intel adopted from AMD.
Intel wouldn't dare destroying AMD. Since AMD got created for sole reason to prevent Intel from being torn apart. But Intel will do everything to keep AMD's market share somewhere comfortably below 20%.