Mpaa and Riaa want control of Hard Drives?

[dfergie]

Here... http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050720_191403.html found the link at doom9

 

[korsjs]

this is crap.

 

[Cascade]

this is crap.

Couldn't have said it better myself.
If I could find the drive I'd learn Linux a little better and ditch all this TPM/DRM BS.
Maybe in the next few weeks.

 

[Stargazer]

If certain things such as this and some other things I have heard about not long ago start becoming monitered and controlled it will make some people paranoid and not want to buy new tech items.

 

[Foxbat]

If certain things such as this and some other things I have heard about not long ago start becoming monitered and controlled it will make some people paranoid and not want to buy new tech items.

Maybe it's time to bring my Amiga 3000 out of the basement

On another front, I heard on Leo LePorte's TWIT podcast that MS Vista will require DVI monitors with HDCP if you want to watch media content protected by DRM.

 

[dfergie]

Maybe it's time to bring my Amiga 3000 out of the basement

I guess I could fire up my old C64 or C128D... What does not the Mpaa and Riaa want control of ?...