It's not that I categorically refuse all DRM, but I do avoid products with functionality intended to support DRM whenever there are choices that don't support it, and aim to pick products with the weakest DRM/DRM support when I don't want to sacrifice too much (e.g. DVD over Blu-ray, because the protections on DVD are so weak they are useless)
I think I can kinda see your argument but I'm not sure that it applies fairly here. How could Intel make a modern -useful- video encode/decode engine that didn't support allow for DRM signed media? It'd be completely useless since it's purpose is too play back common media like, DVD/Blu-ray/etc that are all DRM'd up the wazoo.
Sure it's nice that other decoders/encoders will take advatange of it, and it'll be an awesome boon for resync'ing a lot of poorly encoded Anime I watch
but that's not it's point and it's ability too support DRM'd media is only a tiny fraction of it's functionality.
No-one is making anything that doesn't support it anymore because if they want to be of _any_ use to most people then it's got to be in there
I agree that DRM itself on movie and music is rubbish to the point of being offensive but it's a stupid reason for people (
not necessarily yourself) to lambast Intel for adding a bunch of really cool and useful features to their hardware.
Andy
