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Digital Rights Management Operating System
Anonymous Coward sent in a note about Microsoft being granted a patent on a "Digital Rights Management Operating System". Anything more to say? Nope, don't think so. After Windows XP will be Windows DRM.
Honestly ...
Given the continuous stream of security holes found in Microsoft software, how can they honestly believe that they will be able to securely protect -any- digital content for long?
Granted, it's not an apples-to-apples comparison, but throwing the gauntlet to the community like this is only begging for the system to be torn apart - DMCA be damned.
Got to give them points for hubris, though.
If the hardware resides in my house, there will always be a fix. It may require paperclip jumpers and sacrificing chickens, but there will be a way to access data that is in memory or in some form on the computer.
How about not using Microsoft products and telling (and helping [1]) others to do the same?
[1] Yes, helping, not telling them to "RTFM", fucking zealots.
Does this mean I can patent the inevitable CrackDRM.exe?
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Now that we know their plan for world domination isn't superman suppost to come out and kick some ass?
Well I'm sure they'll get what's comming to them in court, in the mean time I'm waiting for that $12k check I'm going to get for forwarding this e-mail to 10 people.
Good Grief!
Rob
spoken like a European :0)
I know I'm way off base, but so is the patent.
Phase 1: Collect underpants.
Phase 2-
Phase 3: Profit.
I say let Microsoft have the patent to this.
I mean, what good is an operating system that does this?
It's innovative, but I'm as likely to buy one as I'm likely to buy a square wheel, or a chainsaw with a blade made of marshmallow.
Dear Mr. Bin Laden,
Sometime ago, I wrote to you asking if you could please take care of Microsoft. Unfortunately you 'cared' for the wrong target _COUGH_ place. (I think New York is quite a long way away from Microsoft HQ). Please, please, please, could you consider taking care of Microsoft and Bill Gates? He is responsible for America's crimes against humanity and must be stopped at all costs. For example, his use of bribery and monopolising has forced his evil product to be installed on sacred religious computer systems in your land. He is also responsible for attempting to destroy the Internet by brainwashing his minions into using Microsoft protocols. Soon, as the American government plans to deploy the SSSCA (backed by the RIAA (Recording Industry Ass-holes of America) and backed secretly by Bill Gates himself) Microsoft will release its operating system to be compliant with this. Suddenly, almost overnight, the last little bits of freedom that America enjoys today will vanish. Speech will be un free and alternative operating systems (that do not comply with the closed specifications of the SSSCA that will only be disclosed to Microsoft) will be outlawed. Lucky for me, I don't live in America so I will wake up laughing with the rest of the world. However, seeing as they helped us out in WW2, I think we owe it to them to help them out with this.
PS. I have been practicing on (ironically) MS Flight Sim. and have learnt how to use most of the systems on the B767. If you are short of pilots to bomb Microsoft, I would be more than happy to help.
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Oh, the tragic irony.
Microsoft merged with the Monopoly logo
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
You don't need a law for that. On a PC, any OS that doesn't use DMA will be sluggish as hell, and its users will patch it if they can, or abandon it if they can't.
;-)
Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."