From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 8 2:17:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6CBF37B698 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 02:16:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA93118; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 11:16:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Hard drive copy protection a myth? From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 08 Jan 2001 11:16:47 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Excerpt from the latest RISKS digest: > Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 06:35:10 -0500 > From: "Gelsinger, Patrick P" > Subject: Re: IBM and Intel push copy protection ... (Gilmore, RISKS-21.17) > > [Received via Dave Farber, whom Patrick had requested to post a correction.] > > Content protection technology misinformation generates negative web-press > coverage: > > 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. The technology > is neither intended nor licensed for use with PC harddrives and is optional > 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 > "IBM&Intel push copy protection into ordinary disk drives". I have alerted > public relations at Intel and are disseminating accurate information within > Intel and among our industry contacts. > > Pat DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message