Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 12:11:47 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard drive copy protection a myth? Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010108120741.04677c60@localhost> In-Reply-To: <xzp4rzajqls.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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At 03:16 AM 1/8/2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: >Excerpt from the latest RISKS digest: [Snip] >> An article on *The Register* website "Stealth plan puts copy protection into >> every hard drive" contains false information that the 4C's (Intel, IBM, MEI, >> Toshiba) Content Protection for Recordable Media (CPRM) is to be applied to >> all PC hard drives. It is misinterpreting a specification for use of CPRM >> with the Compact Flash media format (which supports either semiconductor >> flash memory or IBM microdrives) probably because Compact Flash uses the >> same command protocol interface as standard PC harddrives. Nonsense. It's being promoted as a general extension to the ATA (not even ATAPI, but ATA!) spec. This means that it can be used in any ATA device. And will. Content providers are hardly worried about copying onto CompactFlash -- or at least they shouldn't be. The capacity is small, and the data on CompactFlash generally comes from hard drives unless the user created it (e.g. in a digital camera). Copy-protecting CompactFlash would be annoying, but wouldn't stop most of the copying that the content providers want to stop. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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