------- Forwarded Message Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 06:35:10 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: IP: from Intel RE: IBM&Intel push copy protection into ordinary disk drives >From: "Gelsinger, Patrick P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Dave - > >As a regular reader of your IP reader, I would apprecaite you diseminating a >correction to your mailing on Dec 22. > >Content protection technology misinformation generates negative web-press >coverage: > >An article on The Register website "Stealth plan puts copy protection into >every hard drive" contains false information that the 4C's (Intel, IBM, MEI, >Toshiba) Content Protection for Recordable Media (CPRM) is to be applied to >all PC hard drives. It is misinterpreting a specification for use of CPRM >with the Compact Flash media format (which supports either semiconductor >flash memory or IBM microdrives) probably because Compact Flash uses the >same command protocol interface as standard PC harddrives. The technology >is neither intended nor licensed for use with PC harddrives and is optional >even for the supported media types (flash memory and microdrives). John >Gilmore, a noted privacy and consumer advocate, has picked up the article >and further propagated the erroneous information and mentioned Intel >"IBM&Intel push copy protection into ordinary disk drives". I have alerted >public relations at Intel and are disseminating accurate information within >Intel and among our industry contacts. > > Pat. For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/ ------- End of Forwarded Message
