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Phoenix Bios to Incorporate DRM

Posted by michael on from the goodbye-free-software dept.

defishguy writes "Extreme Tech is reporting that Phoenix Technologies is shopping a DRM-capable BIOS to OEMS. Reportedly the BIOS with DRM enabled allows for software to be tracked and traced from one PC to another." See also this older story about AMI.

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  1. Re:DRM Enabled by BurKaZoiD · · Score: 0, Troll

    Let's just hope that they're not packed in installer executeables that contain internal checksums to verify that the executeable hasn't been tampered with...

    Well, thanks for reminding the BIOS makers & OEMs, ya frickin' fartknocker!

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