Windows Content Protection (pure evil)

[koaftder]

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Not any different from back in the day. We have always had DRM, even back in the 80's. Those discs that had purposly bad sectors that couldn't be copied, serials and dongles, etc. Nothing new. The only thing that is new is that the average guy deals with this crap now instead of us "geeks".

[koaftder]

mr_a500 wrote:
@koaftder

You obviously didn't read the linked article. Read it, then tell me that it's "nothing new". :roll:

I did read the article. The specifics are new, but the concept and affect on the users is not.

And the article is not right on the highlight about Hollywood driving all these aspects. its multifaceted. You think Microsoft likes random companies pushing code in ring 0 without checks? Of course not. Thats bad for MS and bad for the users, and it's bad for small developers ( bad for them the limits, this also affects users). Everybody gets screwed.

Software companies have tried to control the users of the content since software was ever developed. It is only an issue now because it affects main stream public now. Before then it was not news.