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Microsoft Offers A DRM Patch

Posted by timothy on from the consumption-of-media dept.

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 ..."

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  1. Roll up, roll up! by leonbrooks · · Score: 5, Funny

    Getcha free chains here! Bondage! Suffering! Leather gear, only the hottest from Microsoft! Trade-ins on unwanted liberty a specialty, test-whip today's amazing offer!

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    Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
  2. Rights Managements Services by tato+(and+tato+only) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Something tells me GNU/RMS is not going to like Microsoft's choice of acronyms.

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    tato (and tato only)
    This post is strictly opinion, including the spelling.
    1. Re:Rights Managements Services by archen · · Score: 5, Funny

      Something tells me GNU/RMS is not going to like Microsoft's choice of acronyms.

      Is that why he's even adding it to his name now?

  3. They got the versions all wrong by RumbaFlex · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows 1984 and up is what it was supposed to say...

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    -By attempting the impossible we can achieve the absurd..
  4. Re:The thin end of the wedge. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But then the shining becon of freedom shone through on a land far away. The champoin of freedom in a world which had become a matrix of digital prisons. The ones that stood up to it all without flinching.

    The Chinese...

  5. Patch? by iamdrscience · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have to admit, when I read the headline "Microsoft Offers a DRM Patch" I was pretty happy because I thought it meant they had issued a patch FOR DRM, in the same way a patch for "remote code execution exploit #502937" helps you avoid remote code execution exploit #502937.

  6. Good Try, But You Lost by Farley+Mullet · · Score: 4, Funny
    Unless you're incredibly comfortable with Reich Emergency Protection Act ---- oops, make that the "Patriot" Act ---- it IS the apocalypse, and it's time to wise up and push back.
    Hey, I know you were trying to be the first to bring the Nazis into a discussion about an optional operating system patch, but this asshole beat you too it. Better luck next time.