even for the supported media types (flash memory and microdrives). John
Gilmore, a noted privacy and consumer advocate, has picked up the article
and further propagated the erroneous information and mentioned Intel
"IBMIntel push copy protection into ordinary disk drives". I ha
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Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 22:42:35 -0800
From: Somebody
To: "R. A. Hettinga" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IBMIntel push copy protection into ordinary disk drives
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Subject: Re: IBMIntel push copy protection into ordinary disk drives
The Register has broken a story of the latest tragedy of copyright
mania in the computer industry. Intel and IBM have invented and are
pushing a change to the standard spec for PC hard drives that would
make each one enforce "copy protection" on the data stored on the hard
drive. You
I didn't notice any relevant links in the Register article. A little pokin'
with a search engine yielded..
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I agree. I lived through the "physical" floppy disk copy-protection wars of
the early 80's (wherein such copy-protection technologies fell out of popular
usage) and am extremely skeptical about whether the market will accept this
stuff for all the reasons you cite.
JeffH
It's also innaresting to note that there's these hints in InterTrust's S-1/A
filed way back in 1999-09-28 (note especially the second two)..
. providers of secure digital distribution technology like ATT, IBM,
Microsoft, Liquid Audio, Preview Systems, and Xerox;
. providers of
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree. I lived through the "physical" floppy disk copy-protection wars of
the early 80's (wherein such copy-protection technologies fell out of popular
usage) and am extremely skeptical about whether the market will accept this
stuff for all
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 10:42:15AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's also innaresting to note that there's these hints in InterTrust's S-1/A
filed way back in 1999-09-28 (note especially the second two)..
. providers of secure digital distribution technology like ATT, IBM,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
If they wern't involved in TCPA before
Well actually, that excerpt of Intertrust's S1 was a listing of potential
competitors in their discussion of risks.
they are now- they just announced
a deal with Wave Systems, who is a founder of TCPA.
The Register has broken a story of the latest tragedy of copyright
mania in the computer industry. Intel and IBM have invented and are
pushing a change to the standard spec for PC hard drives that would
make each one enforce "copy protection" on the data stored on the hard
drive. You wouldn't
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