Monday, February 13, 2006
DRM: HDCP Will Be Exclusive To OEM PCs
If you spent hundreds on video cards that are HDCP enabled in order to be ready to watch those new HD-DVD movies, you wasted your money. Turns out that a consortium of manufacturers, including Dell and the already-humiliated Sony, have decided that HDCP-enabled discs can only play on comouters built by OEM's, such as themselves. You can't build a custom PC to do it, HDCP won't allow it. It's time we showed our power as consumers and boycotted these companies hardcore. Slashdot and BoingBoing both have coverage in the continuing connundrum that is DRM. (Link)
