Vista’s content protection caught in real life
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| I was installing some updates today. Nothing really special: Office 2007 SP1
| and three optional updates. I had everything shut down except for Windows
| Media Player since I was watching a DVD. Well, everything progressed smoothly
| until it got to the very end. After all four updates were installed, the
| video driver reset and the screen flashed. Playback of the movie stopped and
| I received a copy protection error saying something about updating my driver.
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http://ilikeellipses.com/2007/12/18/vistas-content-protection-caught-in-real-life/
Watch the photos. Nice software to have, eh? It treats you like a criminal.
Related:
The Longest Suicide Note in History
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| Gutmann: The genie's out of the bottle before the operating system has even
| been released! But that doesn't mean Vista users in particular - and
| the computer community at large - won't end up paying for Microsoft's
| DRM folly. At the risk of repeating myself repeating myself, yet
| another reason to move to Linux.
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http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2007/01/the_longest_suicide_note_in_hi.html
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| In an e-mail to a large Windows Vista OEM distributor titled "Pirated Vista -
| A darkness descends!", a local Microsoft representative made it quite clear
| what Vista pirates can expect to happen to their unlicensed installations.
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| Microsoft's new tough anit-piracy move also proves the company still controls
| its software releases with an iron fist, but it marks the first global use of
| heavy-handed tactics for pirated copies of Windows.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1029262671&rid=-50
Now it's final. I will NEVER upgrade to Vista.
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| "...Windows was deactivated due to a hardware change. You must activate
| Windows within 3 days or Windows will stop working. Click to start
| activation..."
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| [...]
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| Hasta la Vista, baby!! It's Windows XP, Linux, and Mac now.
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http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=102&threadID=212977&start=0&tag=nl.e138
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