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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
• Monte Davidoff, the uncredited co-author of Altair BASIC, publicly opposed CPRM hard-drive copy-protection as a Linux enthusiast in 2001
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · computer-history, drm, open-source, software-piracy, cprm
• What exactly did the 4C Entity's CPRM proposal specify, and what were the terms of T13's April 2001 rejection?
  question open 2026-07-09 · computer-history, drm, cprm, open-source, verification