Vista Month: Welcome To The DRM?
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| Despite some software snafu's, notably iTunes and Camera Raw data
| mangling, we've been cautiously optimistic about Windows Vista.
| However there is one elephant in the room that we haven't addressed
| -- DRM. As it ships Windows Vista has support for DRM built
| into very low-level areas of the OS.
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http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/02/vista_month_wel.html
Nice to see that people are being taught about these hidden 'features'. Even
Forbes published something yesterday.
Related:
DRM in Windows Vista
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| Windows Vista includes an array of "features" that you don't want.
| These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure.
| They'll make your computer less stable and run slower. They will
| cause technical support problems. They may even require you to
| upgrade some of your peripheral hardware and existing software.
| And these features won't do anything useful. In fact, they're
| working against you. They're digital rights management (DRM)
| features built into Vista at the behest of the entertainment
| industry.
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| And you don't get to refuse them.
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/drm_in_windows.html
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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