Microsoft nixes TV copy protection By Joe Wilcox Staff Writer, CNET News.com October 9, 2002, 9:19 AM PT Microsoft has bowed to consumer pressure and pulled back from a controversial plan that would have encrypted TV shows recorded on forthcoming digital media PCs. http://news.com.com/2100-1040-961376.html?tag=lh "War is just a racket ... something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small group knows what its about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses." --- Major General Smedley Butler, 1933