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Will Phoenix keep your disks and OS CPRM-free?

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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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