[Next-Generation Sequencing Book]
  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • December 23, 2000
    You may soon have your hard drive to blame:

    ``Hastening a rapid demise for the free copying of digital media, the next generation of hard disks is likely to come with copyright protection countermeasures built in.

    ``Technical committees of NCTIS, the ANSI-blessed standards body, have been discussing the incorporation of content protection currently used for removable media into industry-standard ATA drives, using proprietary technology originating from the 4C Entity. They're the people who brought you CSS2: IBM, Toshiba Intel and Matsushita.

    ``The scheme envisaged brands each drive with a unique identifier at manufacturing time.

    ``The proposals are already at an advanced stage: three drafts have already been discussed for incorporating CPRM (Content Protection for Recordable Media) into the ATA specification by the NCTIS T.13 committee. The committee next meets in February. If, as expected, the CPRM extensions become part of the ATA specification, copyright protection will be in every industry-standard hard disk by next summer, according to IBM.''

    Basically, the manipulation (reading, writing) of certain encrypted, copyright-protected data on these new hard drives will be limited (not permitted in some cases) by the ATA and SCSI controllers.

    Full story at The Register:
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/15620.html

    Reference by Slashdot.org.

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