Peter Nicholas Biddle is a computer software

Computer software

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 promoter from the United States

United States

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Career

Biddle joined Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

 in 1990. Biddle was one of the first authors to describe the concept of darknet, a founder of the Secure Digital Music Initiative

Secure Digital Music Initiative

Secure Digital Music Initiative was a forum formed in late 1998, composed of more than 200 IT, consumer electronics, security technology, ISP and recording industry companies, ostensibly with the purpose of developing technology specifications that protected the playing, storing and distributing...

 (SDMI), Copy Protection Technical Working Group, and Trusted Computing Platform Alliance, an early technical evangelist for DVD

DVD

A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....

 and digital video recorder

Digital video recorder

A digital video recorder , sometimes referred to by the merchandising term personal video recorder , is a consumer electronics device or application software that records video in a digital format to a disk drive, USB flash drive, SD memory card or other local or networked mass storage device...

 technology, the founding leader of Microsoft’s Next-Generation Secure Computing Base

Next-Generation Secure Computing Base

The Next-Generation Secure Computing Base , formerly known as Palladium, is a software architecture designed by Microsoft which is expected to implement parts of the controversial "Trusted Computing" concept on future versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system. NGSCB is part of...

 (code named Palladium) initiative, and was responsible for starting Microsoft's Hypervisor

Hypervisor

In computing, a hypervisor, also called virtual machine manager , is one of many hardware virtualization techniques that allow multiple operating systems, termed guests, to run concurrently on a host computer. It is so named because it is conceptually one level higher than a supervisory program...

 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

Bill Gates

William Henry "Bill" Gates III is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. Gates is the former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen...

. 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 proponent within SDMI for the external validation of digital watermarking

Digital watermarking

Digital watermarking is the process of embedding information into a digital signal which may be used to verify its authenticity or the identity of its owners, in the same manner as paper bearing a watermark for visible identification. In digital watermarking, the signal may be audio, pictures, or...

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Biddle is a member of the Biddle family

Biddle family

The American Biddle family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania yielded numerous and diverse people of interest down to the present era.William Biddle and Sarah Kempe were Quakers who emigrated from England to America in 1681 in part to avoid religious persecution...

 of Philadelphia and is a descendant of Nicholas Biddle

Nicholas Biddle (banker)

Nicholas Biddle was an American financier who served as the president of the Second Bank of the United States.-Ancestry and early life:...

. He built and led the engineering team that shipped BitLocker Drive Encryption

BitLocker Drive Encryption

BitLocker Drive Encryption is a full disk encryption feature included with the Ultimate and Enterprise editions of Microsoft's Windows Vista and Windows 7 desktop operating systems, as well as the Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 server platforms. It is designed to protect data by...

, a Trusted Platform Module

Trusted Platform Module

In computing, Trusted Platform Module is both the name of a published specification detailing a secure cryptoprocessor that can store cryptographic keys that protect information, as well as the general name of implementations of that specification, often called the "TPM chip" or "TPM Security...

-rooted disk encryption

Disk encryption

Disk encryption is a special case of data at rest protection when the storage media is a sector-addressable device . This article presents cryptographic aspects of the problem...

 for Windows Vista

Windows Vista

Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs...

, and he lived in Seattle.

On August 8, 2007, London

London

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-based company Trampoline Systems announced Biddle would be joining them after leaving Microsoft and move to London.

Biddle joined Intel corporation in 2008 as a director of the Google

Google

Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

 program office. In 2009 he was a witness in the RealNetworks, Inc. v. DVD Copy Control Association, Inc.

RealNetworks, Inc. v. DVD Copy Control Association, Inc.

RealNetworks, Inc. v. DVD Copy Control Association, Inc., 641 F. Supp. 2d 913 , is a United States District Court case involving RealNetworks, the movie studios and DVD Copy Control Association regarding the Digital Millennium Copyright Act claims on the manufacturing and distribution of RealDVD,...

case.
In 2011 he hosted an Internet program called "Mashup Radio".