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[FYI] IBM withdraws CPRM for hard drives proposal
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- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:30:11 +0100
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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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