[IncPen]

The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history.

Link is to original article; I'm responsible for the 'linkage' and formatting which was not present in the original article.

Posted for discussion and education only.

[IncPen]

The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history.

As we were discussing earlier...

[Dallas59]

I just got XP working....Now I have to start all over again?

[kalee]

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[jacquej]

Can someone translate this for us Mac users?

[kinoxi]

I'm not buying it yet.

[Logophile]

None of this would be considered necessary if not for the dishonest and greedy people who want to enjoy the fruits of other people's labor without paying for it.

Dishonest people imposes costs on all of us.

[rlmorel]

Good God. I am not huge Microsoft fan, but I appreciate using their computers for the things they work well at...and for the most part, I can install stuff and get it to work most of the time with few glitches, but...

This sounds really onerous. Is this is for real? It does sound like FUD on Microsoft stuff...is it REALLY this bad? I just do not know enough about this stuff at the technical level to appreciate the severity of it.

This is disturbing stuff, to me at least.

[MikefromOhio]

I can't wait for those who produce games on the PCs to make their products more LINUX and Mac friendly.....

Although there is software out there for LINUX that will allow games to work, but you have to do it yourself. Just wait until the Game makers start doing it on their own.

And no I will not use Vista under any circumstances.

[SauronOfMordor]

Hopefully M$ will have a config option where, in exchange for not being able to play "premium" content, I'll have use of my PC. Otherwise I'm going to Linux.

[Quix]

May Vista and all the globalist triatorous sorts responsible for greedy abuse of the consumer . . . get their just due. May they quickly fall in the pit they dig for others.

[Revel]

This is an easy problem to fix. Don't buy it. Don't buy any computer that has it. Microsoft will change there tune then.

[Swordmaker]

Interesting speculation on the effects that Vista's content protection might have on computing in general, including Macs. PING!

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[ekwd]

From the PC World article (http://www.pcw.co.uk/articles/print/2154785)linked to in the article:
It’s a different matter with the new generation of digital videos and music files. The major movie studios and recording companies have simply said that without copy protection there will be no high-resolution movies or CD-quality music. As a result, Microsoft has extended and improved upon the existing DRM in Windows XP.

From the article:
...so Microsoft will totally control the premium- content distribution channel. Not only will they be able to lock out any competitors, but because they will then represent the only available distribution channel they'll be able to dictate terms back to the content providers whose needs they are nominally serving in the same way that Apple has already dictated terms back to the music industry: Play by Apple's rules, or we won't carry your content.

You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. The first says that content providers are demanding copy protection while the second says that Microsoft is using copy protection to dominate those very same content providers and that to do so they are willing to cripple Vista's performance and and its attraction to customers.
I know for a fact that the Dolby Digital Surround Sound 5.1 encoder in Ulead Video Studio 10 Plus wouldn't work as of the end of October, but I also know that Ulead (now Corel) promises a fix. I don't believe either Corel or Microsoft is suicidal.

[ThePythonicCow]

Good post - thanks.

[Bookwoman]

Can someone provide a concise translation of this for the right-brained?

Thanks

[WildBill2275]

The thing that disturbed me is that MS doesn't want the "card" manufactures to provide "Open Source" drivers for their products (with penalties).
This is thrown in to put LINUX at a competitive disadvantage.
As Microsoft has a 90% market share, this then becomes an antitrust issue.
That level of anticompetitive activity works better in a dictatorship than a free economy.
The one complaint I ever had about John Ashcroft was that the Justice Department, under his leadership, let Microsoft off the hook.

[sauropod]

review

[yield 2 the right]

In short and in simple terms: How does this effect Free Republic?

[sionnsar]

Mala Vista ping

[zip]

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