In January, HP CEO Carly Fiorina announced in her speech at the Consumer Electronics Show that HP is committed to enforcing copy protection technology in all their products. Now, HP said on Monday that it had licensed digital content protection technology from Intel and worked with Philips to develop copy protection technology.
This technology aims to prevent video from being intercepted or recorded between devices including between the PC and the monitor. HP said that the technology aims to be invisible to consumers and said that all their digital entertainment products will use software that enforces copyright protection of protected digital content this year.
Not only that, the companies have even submitted the technology in the first round of filings to the FCC to allow programmers to add flags to digital broadcasts for their CPRM technology to take effect. CPRM Enforcement could easily be used with DVD+R and DVD+RW formats ('-' formats also according to The Register). This would allow a broadcast to be flagged to determine whether the consumer is allowed to copy the broadcast or retransmit it over the Internet. GristyMcFisty submitted the following news from The Register via our news submit :
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HP CEO Carly Fiorina signalled the move in January when she used her speech at the Consumer Electronics Show to attack file sharers. Intel's technology protects video streams as they travel between devices such as a computer and a display screen, Reuters reports. HP is working with Philips on protecting digital video content in compliance with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules. A code is added to content which controls how or if it can be re-broadcast or copied. The companies have submitted the technology to the FCC and hope it will be approved for DVD-R and DVD-RW formats, among others. Read more on this at the Reuters' source. |
It looks like HP aim to make their copyright protection system efforts widespread across all consumer entertainment and broadcasting equipment rather than sticking to themselves. In a way, HP may be doing the content holders a favour without realising that their main customer base is in fact private individuals with the majority that prefer not to be controlled by big corporations.
Source: The Register
