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DRM coming to Hard Drives
Lead Head:
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/02/15/trusted_computing_extended_to_hard_drives/
--- Quote from: Tomshardware ---San Jose (CA) - As part of a series of announcements made this week at the annual RSA security conference, the Trusted Computing Group announced it will be publishing a specification that extends the reach of devices covered by the so-called Trusted Platform to the realm of the hard disk drive. With the advent of TCG's Storage Work Group's implementation of the Trusted Platform Module version 1.2, comes at least the technical possibility that a fixed, single industry standard could emerge for digital rights management at the storage device level.
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This is going WAY over board IMHO.
Discuss.
H_TeXMeX_H:
Wait a minute ... so this is saying that in the near future all harddrives will have DRMs built into them as a part of the firmware ? ... Looks like I'll have to start looking to buy my last computer ... the last free HDD at least ... maybe I'll buy all the free HDDs now and sell em later for millions each ... :) ... assuming the government starts forbidding the use of free HDDs. Like prohibition ...
worker201:
Maybe soon, they'll come out with DRM pencils and DRM paper. Assholes.
Laukev7:
This is getting scary...
Lead Head:
I agree.
On another note
DRM pens could actually be possible. A computer chip placed inside the pen, and sesnors track how the roller-ball is moving and if it sees you writing down copytighted stuff it could lock the ball from moving...
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