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Microsoft Media Player "Security Patch" Changes EULA Big Time

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the under-the-guise-of-security dept.

MobyTurbo writes "In an article on BSD Vault a careful reader posts that in the latest Windows Media Player security patch, the EULA (the "license agreement" you click on) says that you give MS the right to install digital rights management software, and the right to disable any other programs which may circumvent DRM on your computer." So if you want your machine secure, you also want microsoft to have free reign on your PC.

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  1. Spyware by Snowbeam · · Score: 0, Troll

    Don't we usually call a program with the ability to disable another program or function on a PC "Spyware"?

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  2. That's why you should use RedHat!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Excellent timing! RedHat just announced RedHat 7.4! Updates include a new kernel (2.4.19-22), Apache 1.3.26, an updated RPM, dozens of bugfixes and security updates, and many, many other packages. And no dirty Microsoft EULAs!! Be sure to download the ISOs from your nearest mirror, of course!

    1. Re:That's why you should use RedHat!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Dude, why'd you mod this down???? I thought everyone here loves Linux. RedHat is a good distro for the "average" home user. Granted it's not as "leet" as Slackware or Gentoo, but it's still good. Maybe "offtopic" would have been acceptable, but "troll"? I mean... come on. Give the poor guy a break.

  3. It has to be said.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Once again we see that Microsoft is full of fucktards.

  4. There's really nothing wrong with this by kmweber · · Score: 1, Troll

    The creator of a product has the moral right to offer his product under whatever terms he wishes. If a potential consumer of that product decides that he does not like those terms, he is free to choose not to use the product in question.

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