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  • Digital Rights Management is the association of rules governing use and use consequences with digital information of all kinds and the enforcement of those rules at a distance in time and space.

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Friday, June 03, 2005

Is DRM in the eye of the beholder?

An earlier blogicle here cited an article that said Intel's Pentium D chip and chip set have previously unannounced DRM capabilities.  Now  this article says that Intel has issued a denial and clarification. It's not DRM, but DTCP (digital transmission content protection), which, as I recall, will only allow content to be transmitted to a device authenticated to behave in ways supportive of content protection. Snippets:

Kari Skoog, a US-based Intel spokesperson, told ComputerWire the article was incorrect and that the Pentium D and its chipsets do not have unannounced, embedded DRM technology.

Skoog said many Intel products support several existing copy protection or content protection technologies. This includes support for DTCP (digital transmission content protection)-over-IP, which is a copy protection mechanism used to distribute content from one device to another within a home network (as opposed to DRM, which applies to online content). DTCP-IP was developed a couple of years ago by Intel, Toshiba, Hitachi and Matsushita.

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