...imagine a boot disk stamping on a human face, forever:
An industry cartel is planning to put
copy protection into
all new hard disks. Under this scheme, disks will be encrypted and
serialised, with keys stored in a hidden sector. This will make it impossible
to copy protected files from disks (by keying them to the disk), and
incidentally will make backups either impossible or a bureaucratic nightmare.
As you can imagine, the movie and music industries are rubbing their hands
with indecent glee at the idea, and hoping that the consumers are sufficiently
docile and sheeplike to buy this and not realise how bad it is until it's too
late.