____/ [H]omer on Tuesday 14 August 2007 10:24 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> Vista prevents users from playing high-def content, researcher says
> [...]
>> | “This is not commercial HD content being blocked, this is the
>> | users’ own content,” Gutmann said. “The more premium content you
>> | have, the more output is disabled.”
>
> The "genius" of Microsoft is astounding, isn't it?
>
> HD == commercial (therefore copyrighted, therefore protected).
>
> Idiots.
>
> It's an all too familiar tale. Like the day they conspired to disable
> DVD playback ... completely ... just in *case* someone fed the analogue
> signal from the back of a TnT2/x card into a VCR, to commit some
> dastardly lo-tech "crime" (as opposed to the much easier, quicker and
> more effective hi-tech "crime" of simply using DVD Decrypter - duh!).
>
> So not only have they not learned any lessons from their past stupidity,
> but they've expanded it into an entire operating system.
>
> I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
It depends. Do your loved ones use teh Vista to go on the Intranets? Or do they
know better?
--
~~ Best of wishes
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