Just be careful with the Microsoft and their Vista
Just quoting from other site...
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The worst thing about all of this is that there's no escape. Hardware manufacturers will have to drink the kool-aid (and the reference to mass suicide here is deliberate [Note L]) in order to work with Vista: “There is no requirement to sign the [content-protection] license; but without a certificate, no premium content will be passed to the driver”. Of course as a device manufacturer you can choose to opt out, if you don't mind your device only ever being able to display low-quality, fuzzy, blurry video and audio when premium content is present, while your competitors don't have this (artificially-created) problem.
As a user, there is simply no escape. Whether you use Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 95, Linux, FreeBSD, OS X, Solaris (on x86), or almost any other OS, Windows content protection will make your hardware more expensive, less reliable, more difficult to program for, more difficult to support, more vulnerable to hostile code, and with more compatibility problems. Because Windows dominates the market and device vendors are unlikely to design and manufacture two different versions of their products, non-Windows users will be paying for Windows Vista content-protection measures in products even if they never run Windows on them.
At the end of all this, the question remains: Why is Microsoft going to this much trouble? Ask most people what they picture when you use the term “premium-content media player” and they'll respond with “A PVR” or “A DVD player” and not “A Windows PC”. So why go to this much effort to try and turn the PC into something that it's not?
In July 2006, Cory Doctorow published an analysis of the anti-competitive nature of Apple's iTunes copy-restriction system that looked at the benefits of restrictive DRM for the company that controls it. The only reason I can imagine why Microsoft would put its programmers, device vendors, third-party developers, and ultimately its customers, through this much pain is because once this copy protection is entrenched, Microsoft will completely own the distribution channel.
Some other links
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut00...ista_cost.html
http://www.vcnet.com/bms/features/college.shtml
http://cse.stanford.edu/class/cs201/projects-95-96/corporate-monopolies/
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/03/09/time/gates.html
http://www.detikinet.com/index.php/detik.read/tahun/2006/bulan/12/tgl/18/time/082559/idnews/721066/idkanal/408
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Spyware/index.php?p=726
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/27/0015239
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA
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