

USB cables wont carry high-definition video data without DRM checks, should the USB Implementers Forum go through with its plans.

EETimes reports that the forum is developing a variant of USB that includes HDCP content-control technology. This is usually seen in the HDMI connections typically used to hook TV sets up to set-top boxes, DVD players and game consoles.

If it prevails, it can hardly call it the Unversal Serial Bus anymore, could it? Perhaps they can rename it the Universal Studios Bus.

Anyway, it's that old joke about how speakers would one day have internet connections to check to see if you're allowed to listen to your own music, except that it's for real. Nothing will stop it because nothing will stop us buying the worthless, crippled junk that shall be built with it.

USB, Kleer plug into digital TVs [EETimes]