Flash Memory with Copy Protection

Castar writes "Mercury News is reporting that SanDisk has created a new type of flash memory with copy-protection logic built in. From the article: "Today, much of a consumer's digital content is held hostage on a particular kind of device, such as an iPod or a PC, because that is the only way to prevent massive piracy. But with the SanDisk flash memory card, a consumer can move the digital content to another device. If the music company insists the data can only be copied five times, the memory card itself enforces that policy in the new device, be it a cell phone or music player." Rejoice that your data can be "liberated" from the confines of your PC or iPod!"

Comments

Re:So, there is no benefit at all to this technolo

[Philip K Dickhead]

So much more, to do so much less.

The engineers working on DRM are like bonded laborers, at work in the smithy - forging their own chains.

Th eimplementers of DRM systems are klike some insane Israeli state - using their superior resources building a "separation wall" to create established "facts on the ground" in advance of a civil settlement of territory in dispute.

Little wonder so much of this de-liberating cryptographic technology comes from research and manufacture in Israel - a nation that exports coercive police and espionage technology.