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Re: debian-trivia



On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 06:57, Martin.Leidig@ePost.de wrote:
> Shawn McMahon [2003-01-13, 08.16   -0500]:
> > Serial-ATA 150 drives and controllers are available now.
> 
> SATA controllers and drives include DRM functionality, don't they?
> I think I read something like that a couple of weeks ago (and instantly
> decided not to buy that crap).

References on this:

http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2002/8/12/142323/960?pid=73
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=35754&cid=3863537
Google

Conclusion:

Serial ATA drives do not include DRM, or they do include DRM but
requires operating system support (so your Linux box won't be affected
by it).

Alex.

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