[Ghitulescu]

When I pointed to SoCs I knew they won't be that soon found in a PC. I wanted just to show the future (or the past). The intelligent periferics (like IDE) took over various functions a CPU once did. If the CPU in a eg Sinclair Spectrum did everything (including the timing for the optional floppy interface) except encoding the video, the much powerful CPUs of today can do it, too*. There is an initiative, whose name I've forgot ATM, to replace the old BIOS with a "trusted platform". Why? Because the old system allowed for bypassing whatever locks the modern OSes might want to put in.

So the technical solution to cinavia on PCs seems again to be "DON'T UPDATE, DON'T UPGRADE". Keep your system as it is now (if you're happy with) and away from internet.

*According to Verance, the detection routine doesn't need more than 10Mips, thus a Pentium class CPU would fully suffice.