Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> HBO Exec: Don't Call It DRM
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> | People don't like DRM, perhaps that's just because it's such a smelly
> | word. HBO's chief technology officer Bob Zitter thinks so, he wants
> | to ditch the term DRM in favor of "DCE," or, "Digital Consumer
> | Enablement."
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> http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/05/hbos_exec_dont_.html
ROTFLMFAO!!!!
Tell me this, Bob ... what exactly is "enabling" about restrictions?
*What* a coconut.
> It's like Microsoft habit of constantly renaming its search engine, changing
> the user interface, and heralding the arrival of an all new and improved
> search engine. The same goes for the Zune and XBox360, among other products.
> It's still a pig in a dress, not a girlfriend.
How many times did they rename Trusted Computing? Didn't it start out
life as "Paladium"? Oh, here's the list here:
"TC / TCG / LaGrande / NGSCB / Longhorn / Palladium / TCPA"
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
More?
Like you say, you can paint the pig with lipstick, but it's still a pig.
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K.
http://slated.org
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| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
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