CPRM inevitable, says HD guru

The Register reports that Hale Landis, an open standards advocate for twenty five years and a participant in the ANSI X3/NCITS Technical Committees responsible for the ATA and ATA/ATAPI standards since 1990, believes that Content Protection for Recordable Media will be integrated into PCs. His pessimistic perspective is based on the economic realities of a struggling hardware industry increasingly influenced by the entertainment business.

Landis writes, "We are seeing the end of 'open device interface standards' and especially the end of T13. I just wonder how long it will be before T10, SCSI, 1394, and others, meet that same fate?"

The source article is at theregister.co.uk.