Re: OT: Vista and DRM

[jordibares <jordibares(at)the-mill.com>]

Title: Re: OT: Vista and DRM

On 30/1/07 16:51, "Luc-Eric Rousseau" <lucer(at)Softimage.COM> wrote:

> Jordi, Microsoft will not be deleting medias or locking you out of your machines, this is all FUD...
>  
I have read about this (Microsoft Vista scanning your media and locking it) and although I can’t remember exactly the web page here is a note about the “functionality” of Vista that blocks you out of your machine.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061004-7898.html

> If you buy commercial videos or use blu-ray disks, there are some limitations that the content can put on the media.  For example, high-quality component output could be block from windows media center, or the resolution of the video could be lowered.  This is all already available in windows for about 8 years for normal DVD.  It's bit flag on copy-protected media. It's all part of the HDCP copy protection and all devices that will play HDDVD and blu-ray have to deal with it including your HD monitor.
To the point of forcing me to buy a new monitor? This has never happened before and I am not paying for a movie in HDDVD to see it downrezed.

Which by the way it is using my power to do (the downrez), which I payfor... I think they may be indeed liable for using extra power for something I have not authorized the computer to do.
> If you don't buy or rent DRMed content absolutely nothing of this concerns you.  Which is exactly why when someone says "I'll run linux instead!" it makes no sense: if you run linux then it means you wouldn't be using DRMed content anyway.  All the FUD on the internet about DRM is about code that is only run when you media through Windows Media.
Here there is an interesting point, the protected content is something I have not asked for, I pay for a movie and I should be able to do what I want, therefore if the movie is protected against playing on Linux they are basically leaving me two options, either I don’t buy the movie or simply break the protection.

Anyway, don’t want to seem radical but this is just too much. 

Jb

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]On Behalf Of jordibares
> Posted At: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:31 AM
> Posted To: xsi
> Conversation: OT: Vista and DRM
> Subject: Re: OT: Vista and DRM
>
> > I am not saying  Apple are nice guys but at least they are not deleting my movies, nor blocking  the output of those and if we say yes to Microsoft, apple and the rest of  manufacturers will have green light to do whatever they want, from ePaper to  web2 databases is all a matter of the same.
> >
> > I will add don’t buy in  iTunes neither, but the move from Microsoft is just far too  much.
> >
> > jb