[8314] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: IBM&Intel push copy protection into ordinary disk drives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonomasia)
Fri Dec 22 03:43:44 2000
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 22:07:47 GMT
From: Antonomasia <ant@notatla.demon.co.uk>
Message-Id: <200012212207.WAA01842@notatla.demon.co.uk>
To: cryptography@c2.net, gnu@toad.com
> The Register has broken a story of the latest tragedy of copyright
> mania in the computer industry. Intel and IBM have invented and are
> pushing a change to the standard spec for PC hard drives that would
> make each one enforce "copy protection" on the data stored on the hard
> drive. You wouldn't be able to copy data from your own hard drive to
> another drive, or back it up, without permission
I suppose the limitations of these would have to be stated when offered
for sale to keep within (to quote from another web page)
[n]ational (and international) consumer law, especially that of
the UK and that promulgated by the EC
The Trades Descriptions Act (in the UK)
The general concept of "fitness for purpose"
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