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[FYI] IBM withdraws CPRM for hard drives proposal



http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/17107.html

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IBM withdraws CPRM for hard drives proposal  

By: Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco  

Posted: 22/02/2001 at 07:54 GMT  

At a much-anticipated meeting in Texas yesterday, IBM withdrew its 
proposal to put CPRM (Copy Protection for Recordable Media) into ATA 
hard drives.  

[...]  

"People are not going to buy crippleware," said Stanton McCandish for 
the Electronic Frontier Foundation, whose co-founder John Gilmore had 
called for a boycott of CPRM-compliant hardware. "The goal of 
hardware manufacturers is to satisfy their customers and the EFF is 
glad to see them doing that here," said McCandish. The meeting 
continues today.  

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