Re: Windows Vista - worst OS yet?

On 10 Jan 2007 05:59:46 -0800, "Ancient_Hacker" <grg2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

One might suspect something more along these lines is what's happening:

(1) The media industry lobbies the computer industry to implement
serious "digital rights management".

(2) The industry says "sure", and tries several schemes, all broken
within a month.

(3) TMI pushes again, saying "In Vista, put in some really good DRM".

(4) MSoft puts in a half-hearted effort, which looks secure on the
outside, enough to please TMI for a while.

(5) Your typical cadre of code crackers takes, somewhere between one
and three months to break Vista's DRM.

(6) TMi is unhappy, but who cares. MSoft gets the best of both ends,
claiming to provide DRM, but in actuality many people bypass it, making
Vista a usable OS.

Just my guess....

Not everyone is savvy enough to figure out how to apply the anti-DRM
software .

From what I'm reading, there's plenty of hardware that is used with
the DRM . . . that could become: you need the DRM software to use the
hardware at all. I think that is the RIAA and MPA's goal - the
hardware includes protection that the software must use.

They were even looking at ways to include DRM in the decoded audio and
video so you couldn't record from the analog format. Any idea if
Vista does anything like that?

Anyhow you are expected to pay a penalty for both the increased
hardware requirements and software costs, poor performance, software
overhead. While MS has a EULA that gives them permission to go in and
change your system without your consent.

Sounds like Ted Stevens (that paragon of technical competence)
designed it.

In another decade we will be buying hardware from China and operating
systems from India.

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