Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Sunday 30 September 2007 19:45 : \____
>
>> nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> On Sep 30, 12:29 am, Ramon F Herrera <ra...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> DRM troubles drive ex-Microsoft employee to Linux
>>>>
>>>> A security expert who once worked for Microsoft has said he may dump
>>>> the company's Windows Media Center in favor of Ubuntu-affiliated
>>>> LinuxMCE after struggling with the software giant's digital-rights
>>>> management software.
>>>>
>>>> Jesper Johansson--a former senior program manager for security policy
>>>> at Microsoft who moved to Amazon in September last year--wrote in his
>>>> blog on Monday that he may drop Windows Media Center for LinuxMCE, a
>>>> free open-source add-on to the Kubuntu desktop operating system,
>>>> because problems caused by Microsoft's digital-rights management (DRM)
>>>> software have proven so difficult to fix.
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>
> http://www.news.com/DRM-troubles-drive-ex-Microsoft-employee-to-Linux...http://tinyurl.com/2clbh2
>>>>
>>>> -RFH
>>>
>>><Quote>
>>> "Upon inspecting the problem I found that the video would turn on, the
>>> screen would flicker for a second each of black and the video a few
>>> times, and then the Blue Screen of DRM came up. It also wouldn't play
>>> any premium channels," he wrote.
>>>
>>> Johansson said the recommended work-around involved several convoluted
>>> steps, including installing Windows Media Player 10, which crashed,
>>> and then being advised to troubleshoot the problem with Windows
>>> SharePoint Services. A subsequent Microsoft DRM update then caused the
>>> Internet Explorer browser to crash.
>>></Quote>
>>>
>>> And DFS likes to talk about "Linux crapware"???
>>>
>>> DRM is a plague. My wife likes Italian cooking shows, so she ordered
>>> some DVDs from RAI (Italian tv network). Unfortunately, they come
>>> with European region coding. She was considering getting two DVD
>>> players, one for US region, one for European. So I tried it out on my
>>> Ubuntu Linux box. It's a pretty old machine and doesn't have advanced
>>> video hardware, so I was worried it wouldn't work well. And I wasn't
>>> sure how it would handle region coding. Guess what? It *completely
>>> ignores* region coding, and the display is great!
>>>
>>
>> I don't buy any video players until I've determined that the region
>> coding can be defeated permanently. I travel around the world a lot,
>> and like to buy things where and when I want to, not when some suited
>> character in a high-rise office decides I should.
>>
>> I'll be in Canada over christmas again with the kids, and I'm quite sure
>> that they'll be buying whatever DVDs they want to.
>>
> Here is the original post, which I found and read yesterday:
>
> Blue Screen of DRM Death; or The Death Of Windows Media Center
>
> http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2007/09/24/blue-screen-of-drm-death-or-the-death-of-windows-media-center.aspx
>
> See what he says about DRM zeal.
>
Interestingly, in the comments, there is a significant number of people
who've moved to Linux recently and cannot praise it highly enough.
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