This p**** me off a lot.
First off, why so many security problems in the first place. Now this? It's a joke...
But maybe this ties in with the RIAA's latest plans (another news item here.)
on
slashdot.org a poster points out that one of the purposes of this may be to...
* Compute a digital fingerprint of played content and check with a Microsoft server to see if it's pirated. This would make the RIAA and MPAA very happy. (Isn't this already being done for audio CDs, to get the title info?)
What do you think?
I don't think I'd be so paranoid about these things if M$ wasn't keeping us all in the dark so much.
-zudo
