New Hard Drive Standard May Limit Access to Information
Content Protection for Recordable Media (CPRM), a system that labels each hard drive with a unique identifier, may be incorporated into all new hard drives. The system prevents the transfer of files from a hard disk without the protection to a CPRM-complaint disk. To transfer the files, a user would have to seek permission from central server.
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