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IBM withdraws CPRM for hard drives proposal

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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.

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"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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