This is rather peculiar:

Now there are opponents and proponents of DRM, and I am not going to get into a discussion about the pros and cons of DRM in this blog; but I will say that Intel Insider is NOT a DRM technology.

Having established what it isn’t, the spokesperson goes on to tell us what it is:

Think of it as an armoured truck carrying the movie from the Internet to your display, it keeps the data safe from pirates, but still lets you enjoy your legally acquired movie in the best possible quality.

Right.

As long as using it is optional, I’m not too bothered that there’s DRM circuitry on board the new chips. What does annoy me though, is that apparently there’s room on the die for all of this (not to mention the new “Quick Sync” video-transcoding engine), yet we still have to get by without support for ECC-memory modules. Priorities, priorities…