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Microsoft Offers A DRM Patch
Transcendent writes "Microsoft Windows Update is offering a download for their 1.0 version of the 'Microsoft Windows Rights Management client,' if you care to download it. Seems that you need Win98 SE and up (or at least that's the minimum 'supported'). Details are here. Although it's not required or a 'critical' update, this just paves the road for all of Microsoft's software to require DRM technology on your computer. Quote from the details page: 'Installing this client allows RM-aware applications to work with Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) to provide licenses for publishing and consuming RM-protected information.' This, dubbed 'Activation', entails that 'your computer will be automatically connected via the Internet ... in order to create and save on your computer a system component that is associated with your hardware.' Hmmm... me no like ..."
The DRM patch is also know as the RIAA/MPAA patch....
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HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS
Is that all you all can do is complain about Microsoft for every single thing they do? If DRM will allow me one day to pay for and download music and movies legally (ie. not STEALING them like so many do), I'm all for it. DRM won't stop me from using my computer in any way. And once DRM is mainstream, and it will be, Linsux will support it as well. When that time comes, what OS will you use? Amiga OS?
Requiring all Jews to be registered is just a minor thing.
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We'll ignore the fact that on the same day, Gates donated $168 million to fund malaria research, but funnily enough, I doubt we'll see that reported here.
Big fucking deal. I've had malaria before, it was easy to get over (took a little over a week). If you can't handle a little malaria you're a pussy with a weak immune system.
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Office 2003. In other words, this is another non-issue that all the Linux trolls are pulling their hair out over. This just has to do with being able to view rights-protected Office 2003 documents without Office 2003.
But, of course, Slashdot says "Microsoft Offers S DRM Patch." Let's ignore facts for page hits and controversy! I'm surprised all you people who decry corporations and their biased bullshit allow the OSDN-owned Slashdot to continue the Microsoft troll articles daily.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Sure. You can go over to a friend's house when you want to watch the Emmys. Nobody is (yet) advocating the forced imposition of a software regime on anybody. Though there are a significant number of anti-democratic 'Open Source Only' mandates working through goverments worldwide....
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What holocaust? Give proof.
I guess that made me a slime, yes?
1) I doubt they care; 2) That would be absolutely pathetic, and would represent a new low even for the GNU/Zealots.
It would be easy for him to tack a short rant about DRM, TCPA, "Trusted computing", and all the other current buzzwords onto the top of the political "action items" on his home page, so that even more mainstream people looking for information on MS/RMS are directed to GNU/RMS instead.
So the entire world can know what a raving luncatic he is!