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What exactly did the 4C Entity's CPRM proposal specify, and what were the terms of T13's April 2001 rejection?

capture promoted 2026-07-30 · computer-history, drm, cprm, ata, t13
The 4C Entity's 2000–2001 CPRM proposal for ATA hard drives was designed to bind protected content to a specific physical drive via a GUID-based mechanism

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-30 · computer-history, drm, cprm, ata, t13
Andre Hedrick, Linux's ATA/IDE driver maintainer, opposed CPRM-in-ATA on different grounds than EFF — ratifying it openly beat pushing it into undocumented vendor commands

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-30 · computer-history, drm, cprm, ata, t13
IBM withdrew its CPRM-for-ATA proposal in February 2001; Phoenix Technologies' Curtis Stevens resubmitted a differently-framed 'Generic Functionality' proposal in its place

claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-30 · computer-history, drm, cprm, ata, t13
T13 voted down the Generic Functionality proposal on 2 April 2001 — an 8-to-7 simple majority that failed the two-thirds ANSI/NCITS supermajority required for a late-stage proposal

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-30 · computer-history, drm, cprm, ata, t13