> here's the story of an end-user who really *would* like to have > fully-legal-and-licenced MS software; but finds he can't actually *do* > anything with it unless he resorts to some potentially-gray practices. > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15621.html > > Carl Soderstrom If you think that's ugly, try this one: "Hastening a rapid demise for the free copying of digital media, the next generation of hard disks is likely to come with copyright protection countermeasures built in. Technical committees of NCTIS, the ANSI-blessed standards body, have been discussing the incorporation of content protection currently used for removable media into industry-standard ATA drives, using proprietary technology originating from the 4C Entity. They're the people who brought you CSS2: IBM, Toshiba Intel and Matsushita." http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/15620.html Alan Cox responds (not much meat here, unfortunately): http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/2/15655.html -- Eric Hillman UNIX Sysadmin/Webmaster City & County Credit Union ehillman at cccu.com