> 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 be able to copy data from your own hard drive to
> another drive, or back it up, without permission
I suppose the limitations of these would have to be stated when offered
for sale to keep within (to quote from another web page)
[n]ational (and international) consumer law, especially that of
the UK and that promulgated by the EC
The Trades Descriptions Act (in the UK)
The general concept of "fitness for purpose"
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