Peter Nicholas Biddle (born December 22, 1966) is a computer software promoter from the United States.
Biddle joined Microsoft in 1990. Biddle was one of the first authors to describe the concept of darknet, a founder of the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), Copy Protection Technical Working Group, and Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, an early technical evangelist for DVD and digital video recorder technology, the founding leader of Mic...
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Peter Nicholas Biddle (born December 22, 1966) is a computer software promoter from the United States.
Biddle joined Microsoft in 1990. Biddle was one of the first authors to describe the concept of darknet, a founder of the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI), Copy Protection Technical Working Group, and Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, an early technical evangelist for DVD and digital video recorder technology, the founding leader of Microsoft’s Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (code named Palladium) initiative, and was responsible for starting Microsoft's Hypervisor development efforts.
In 1998, Biddle publicly demonstrated real-time consumer digital video recorder functionality using an inexpensive MPEG2 hardware encoder, at the WinHEC conference during a speech by Bill Gates. Biddle was the author of the diagram on page 13 in the SDMI specification, which enabled the playback of “unknown” (potentially pirated) content on SDMI-compliant players, and was a vocal...
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