> 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
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