The copy protection build in harddrives wich we reported earlier seems to go in the same way as the build in ID number in intel procs...
The proposed inclusion of CPRM (Content Protection for Removable Media) into the ATA standard - at the behest of the entertainment industry - was first revealed in The Register shortly before Christmas. It has generated a storm of public protest, condemnation of the idea of 'pay-per-read' disk drives, and a call for boycotts of CPRM-compliant hardware vendors from EFF co-founder John Gilmore. |
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"Users will be able to turn it off and lock it off, so effectively it's not there anymore," he says. The entertainment industry would nevertheless be able distribute CPRM-aware content, although the ultimate decision on accepting such content would be the end user, who will also be able to isolate the files to a separate partition. "This way, everybody wins," he says.
So this will probably never get's a chance...
