| HP, DRM and the felicitously named
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HP yesterday announced further moves to bring it to the forefront of user-hostile digital restrictions management.
Palo Alto, California-based HP said that it had licensed Intel's high-bandwidth digital content protection technology, which is designed to ensure that video cannot be intercepted and recorded as its travels between devices, such as between a personal computer and a TV display screen.
Felice Swapp, who heads up much of HP's digital rights management work, said that the Intel technology is invisible to consumers, and that it made more sense for HP to license that technology from Intel rather than to develop it itself and possibly create a competing standard.
Let's argue about DRM later. For now, let us all join together at the felicity of the name of the person who heads up HP's DRM initiative...
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by D. Weinberger at March 2, 2004 11:07 AM
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Too funny. Reminds me of the sheriff we used to have here in my home town. His name was klink. No joke.
Anyway, any media system that still has holes for eyes and ears will remain easy prey for determined copyright violators. And all it takes is one unscrupulous person to open the content to widespread piracy. Even while the DRM attempts to stop these people will be ineffective, they still have the capability to make life a royal pain for the rest of us in the process. I'm not against DRM per se, only against those implimentations which do little to stop piracy while seriously impacting my fair use rights of the content.
Posted by: scott | March 3, 2004 09:54 AM