Fritz-chip
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The Fritz-chip is a nickname for the hardware component of a software-execution monitoring system now known as the Trusted Platform Module. The name refers to former United States Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, who sponsored several pieces of legislation aimed at protecting the interests of intellectual property holders in the digital age, including one (the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act) that aimed to mandate the inclusion of such a chip in every computer. The term is typically used derisively by those opposed to digital rights management (DRM) in the context of Trusted Computing.
For a description of what the Fritz chip is, see Trusted Computing.
