[LINK] copy protection FUD?

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 Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 06:35:10 -0500
 From: "Gelsinger, Patrick P" <patrick.p.gelsinger@intel.com>
 Subject: Re: IBM and Intel push copy protection ... (Gilmore, RISKS-21.17)
 
   [Received via Dave Farber, whom Patrick had requested to post a correction.]
 
 Content protection technology misinformation generates negative web-press
 coverage:
 
 An article on *The Register* website "Stealth plan puts copy protection into
 every hard drive" contains false information that the 4C's (Intel, IBM, MEI,
 Toshiba) Content Protection for Recordable Media (CPRM) is to be applied to
 all PC hard drives.  It is misinterpreting a specification for use of CPRM
 with the Compact Flash media format (which supports either semiconductor
 flash memory or IBM microdrives) probably because Compact Flash uses the
 same command protocol interface as standard PC harddrives.  The technology
 is neither intended nor licensed for use with PC harddrives and is optional
 even for the supported media types (flash memory and microdrives). John
 Gilmore, a noted privacy and consumer advocate, has picked up the article
 and further propagated the erroneous information and mentioned Intel
 "IBM&Intel push copy protection into ordinary disk drives".  I have alerted
 public relations at Intel and are disseminating accurate information within
 Intel and among our industry contacts.
 
 Pat