
The Internet Heist (Part II)
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
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Is There a DRM in High Definition Broadcasting?
Intel's implicit pitch to other tech companies was, if you don't come to this meeting, we're going to standardize the four c and five c technologies as mandatory for all devices. Intel owned patents in each group's patent pools and received a royalty every time a device containing either got made. They were also the senior member of each consortion, so each was guaranteed to act in ways that pleased intels shareholders. The only controversy was, which technical criteria does a d r m need to satisfy in order to be included in this broadcast flag rule? E f f raised a separate, even more foundational issue, why do we need d r m at all? And secondarily, would
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