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 legislation, the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act, that would have mandated a new government-ordered digital rights management (DRM) system in computers and other digital devices. The term is typically used derisively by those opposed to DRM in the context of Trusted Computing.
For a description of what the Fritz chip is, see Trusted Computing.
