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[FYI] Will Phoenix keep your disks and OS CPRM-free?
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- Subject: [FYI] Will Phoenix keep your disks and OS CPRM-free?
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 17:44:02 +0100
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/17132.html
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Will Phoenix keep your disks and OS CPRM-free?
By: Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
Posted: 23/02/2001 at 09:24 GMT
The Phoenix Technologies proposal before the T.13 committee, which
may pave the way to copy restrictions for users, shouldn't be seen as
the son of CPRM, argues Linux ATA/IDE guy Andre Hedrick.
Although the proposal - which has not yet been published outside the
open meeting - does not specifically prevent any command sets such as
CPRM from applying to fixed hard drives at a later date, Hedrick says
the important point is that the owner of the drive could disable the
features.
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