From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 18:17:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 18:17:26 -0500 Received: from adsl-63-195-162-81.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([63.195.162.81]:59402 "EHLO master.linux-ide.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 2 Jan 2001 18:17:17 -0500 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 14:46:24 -0800 (PST) From: Andre Hedrick To: Rob Landley cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: CPRM copy protection for ATA drives In-Reply-To: <3A525923.330B0482@flash.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/