Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 2 Jan 2001 14:46:24 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: CPRM copy protection for ATA drives |
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On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Rob Landley wrote:
> And we all remember how the pirates got around this, don't we? The easy > way: crack the program.
Nope...it is embedded to the vender portion of the media.
> There's nothing new under the sun, and the "zero day warez" people never > even broke stride dealing with this sort of thing. All it WILL do is > annoy people who try to legitimately use the system. And, of coruse, > make a lot more people buy SCSI if they sabotage the ATA spec this > way...
You were not listening, SCSI/MMC grabbed their ankles already!
> Has anybody brought up the LEVELS of nested stupidity in this particular > proposal to the committe? (Committee iq: average intelligence of > members, divide by headcount. Nice to see that holds true.)
Yes, it is not part of the STANDARD because I successfully stopped it for now until February. Oh and I sit and vote on that committee.
> users. A GPLed program isn't likely to depend on this "feature", is > it? Or the Intel CPU ID...).
It requires a licensed HOST/Application like a JAVA-thingy, or a real-local one.
If you want to kill it somebody create a GNU-CPRM and open-source it. License it for FREE.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development
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