Windows Content Protection (pure evil)

[DonnyEMU]

This is all just envious horse hockey, I can do things with Vista that I have never EVER been able to do before even on the Amiga.. I have been using vista for nearly 2 years in one form or another it's protection has kept me virus and malware free (unlike XP), none of the things that you guys are complaining about has a shread of reality that renders the OS unusable.

You guys are just anti-microsoft and don't want them to win. I think if you actually tried to be less "religious" about computers you'd find a lot of reasons to be happy about it.

Either way it's your choice. I'd rather see posts about people and what they are doing with their Amiga's than the anti-Microsoft garbage. Isn't this what it's all about. I could point by point knock down every post and the points made about it and argue otherwise, but it's a waste of time. I prefer to enjoy my Vista Ultimate computer (which runs WinUAE just fine).. Than to waste time on this thread. You should think about what you are saying and how it sounds before posting..

Can't we all get along and do something more productive here..

Oh and this comment about "Bill Fleecing Customers".. You probably never worked for a Commodore store when the brought out 2.0 and 3.0 of the Amiga workbench and the complaining and moaning about upgrading, the costs, installing  the upgrade and the general chaos that normally goes along with that stuff. I did it's not any different than what I am reading about people considering the vista upgrade. Time seems to change peoples memories and make them more rosey.

I loved the guy who came in and grabbed me by the neck because his A1000 C-Ltd hard drive controller didn't automatically work with his 2.04 update pack.. So don't talk to me about IRATE customers and how Amiga owners had it soo much better.

-Don

[DonnyEMU]

Now, maybe you like your OS to check many times per second to make sure you're not stealing anything - using up resources. Maybe you like your OS to actively prevent you from doing things and deciding on its own what you can or can't do. Maybe you like your OS to arbitrarily decide that your hardware doesn't have enough protection and disables it for you or revokes its drivers

Let's face it an era has ended of drm-free world has ended mostly because the abuses against creative folks by MP3 sharers who didn't pay their fair share to buy the music and creative works being produced. For every action there is a reaction.. You can choose just not to buy DRM protected files and buy that which is not protected. That will show your economic power and show as a consumer what you can accept or not accept. Blaming Microsoft and Vista (and even Apple) for peer sharing things like LimeWire, Napster and others actions is not really fair. They are just reacting to market conditions.

I have many files on Vista that are NOT DRM encoded and I'd just say that the stuff you are complaining about really doesn't effect daily usage. If I want to buy DRM I can, you still have choice even with Vista.

As far as signed drivers, on the PC it's a good idea because people are installing malware and viruses on them, making sure you are getting the real deal with a driver is a good thing..