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[FYI] New technology could help squelch digital music piracy
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- Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 22:02:37 +0100
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New technology could help squelch digital music piracy
By John Borland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
December 27, 2000, 3:05 p.m. PT
A group of technology companies is creating a set of industry
standards that could help put digital piracy protections directly
into portable disk drives as soon as this summer.
The plans are initially likely to affect removable data storage, such
as Zip drives or the Flash memory cards used in MP3 players. But the
standards could ultimately serve as a way to keep consumers from
copying copyrighted files directly onto their hard drives, a daunting
prospect for those who download music or videos from the Net though
programs such as Napster or Gnutella.
Any hardware device that limits what consumers can do with their
music or video files will face steep hurdles before being adopted.
Previous devices with built-in copy protection have reached the
market only to disappear under the weight of consumer indifference.
Current efforts are coming in two parts. An industry body that
oversees hardware technologies is creating the new set of standards
designed to let individual manufacturers add their own copy-
protection schemes. Waiting in the wings to take advantage of the
standards body's proposal is a specific technology jointly created by
Intel, IBM, Matsushita Electric and Toshiba, dubbed Content
Protection for Recordable Media (CPRM).
[...]
"Moving to the hardware level would be a step in the direction of
creating a fundamental (anti-piracy) infrastructure, which might put
the content providers' fears to rest," said Steve Vonder Haar, an
analyst with The Yankee Group.
[...]
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