"Hewlett-Packard said Monday it had licensed digital content protection technology from chipmaker Intel and developed copy protection technology with Philips as the printer and computer maker seeks to stake out a strong position in the nascent arena of digital copyright protection. "



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DRM = Useless stupidity.

(and you can forget selling it to an ever growing number of us!)

Nuff said

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"Felice Swapp, who heads up much of HP's digital rights management work, said that the Intel technology is invisible to consumers, and that it made more sense for HP to license that technology from Intel rather than to develop it itself and possibly create a competing standard."

Yeah, because God forbid that there actually be competition in the market

The technology under discussion is High Definition Content Protection, HDCP. It encrypts the DVI connector which will one day replace the VGA connector. At first sight, it may seem odd to encrypt the cable from computer to monitor. But there are two reasons:

1. It prevents people feeding their DVI output into a recorder. Only profesional video editing equipment would actually have a DVI input, its way beyond the home budget, but a commercial pirateing group could use the technique.

2. HDCP is part of the CPSA group, and under the CPSA licencing, DVI-compliant display devices are encourages, through not required, to impliment a watermark check that disables playback of watermarked copy-freely or unencrypted content. The watermark hasn't yet been finalised through. Or started. Or even suggested. Vaporware.

Sorry, should be high-bandwidth digital, hit high-definition. That was an alternate and obsolete name for the same technology.

What would HP want with HDCP anyway? Graphics cards manufacturers, possibly. Motherboard manufacturers, possible. Monitor manufactures, possibly. Each only under heavy encouragement from a DRM group or Intel. But an OEM? Could be related to the HP media center PCs I suppose.

never bought an hp putter never will or a dell etc
build your own.
so buy a cable and plug and put it in your self. it couldn't be that easy could it?

Looks like I won't be buying HP printers anymore don't like HP computers or DELL or Gateway build my own and moving to linux.

HP + Microsuck = DRM poison.

Never have I been happier that I actively avoided anything with an HP branding when I went printer hunting back in November.

"...is designed to ensure that video cannot be intercepted and recorded as its travels between devices"...so why not just intercept the signal after it gets to the device? Never underestimate the productivity of hardware hackers with lots of time on their hands.

I built my own computer using a ShuttleX motherboard. No restrictions, no DRM.

I was going to buy an HP laptop later this year, but they can forget that.

There are plenty of other computer makers out there that don't feel like losing customers.

Hail Mp3!!!