Entertainingly enough, the EFF joined the disk drive committee so
that they can cast votes against such things. Anyone can join if
they have the money. :-)
_SRC
Tom WSMF wrote:
>
> >From Tom's Hardware
> http://www4.tomshardware.com/technews/index.html
>
> Hardware copy protection voted down The proposal to put copyright
> protection into ATA hard drive specifications has been voted down by the
> T.13 committee. Though the vote was 8 to 7 in favor of including Curtis
> Stevens' "Proposal to Support Generic Functionality" in the spec, a
> two-thirds supermajority of eligible organizations was required, so the
> measure failed. The move to build copyright protection into hardware was
> led by the 4C Entity made up of IBM, Intel, Matsushita Electric and
> Toshiba. Observers expect that copyright protection will not be defeated
> by this vote, but will be shifted to other parts of the technology
> equation.
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