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U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

How about locking all the advanced functions behind a hardware lock that requires an online key to unlock? Besides getting an IP address for geolocation, this approach would enable manufacturers to put a subscription on the features as well. Require users to provide a government issued ID that matches the name on the credit card used.

VPN! I hear you cry. But the driver is already running pretty close to the hardware, so good luck hiding a VPN client.

So while you can't guarantee a street address accuracy, you can get country and overall regional subdivision.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

But who would buy such hardware? :)

so good luck hiding a VPN client.

In my imagination, there is no VPN client. The whole network is behind a VPN router and the internet gateway is where it needs to be.