Good news, IBM withdrew CPRM/ATA proposal [Archive]

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CMonster

02-22-2001, 08:07 PM

Facing a barage of complaints from consumers threatening to boycott any form of "cripple-ware," IBM has withdrawn its controversial proposal to have CPRM (Copy Protection for Recordable Media) inserted into the ATA specification that governs hard disks.

One article states that IBM received over 20,000 pages of negative email over this proposal in just one day..

sorry no link, still looking for the article I read this morning.

drizzle

02-22-2001, 08:12 PM

CMonster, here's the link from The Register on that:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/17107.html

And for the complete coverage...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/17009.html

NDC

02-22-2001, 08:34 PM

Best news I've heard all week! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

CMonster

02-23-2001, 02:01 AM

Thanks drizzle! I read that one and another short article that I can't remember. Anyway, it just goes to show that our consumer opinions do count for something.

socalgal

02-23-2001, 07:38 AM

Hallelujah!

Glad to see some corporations still listen to us "little" guys! Goes to show there's power in numbers. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif