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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. Re:Uh oh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1. Save every Free Credit Card Offer you get, Put it in pile A
    2. Save every Free Coupon You get, put that in pile B
    3. Now open the credit card mail from pile A and find the Business Reply Mail Envelope.
    4. Take the coupons from pile B and stuff them in the envelope you hold in your hand.
    5. Drop the stuffed to the brim envelopes in your mail and walk away whistling.

    I have now received two phone calls from the credit card companies telling me that they received a stuffed envelope with coupons rather
    than my application. They informed me that it they are not pleased that they footed the bill for the crap I sent them. I reply with "It says
    Business Reply Mail" I'm suggesting coupons to you to ensure that your business is more successful. They promptly hang up on me.

    Now, I did this for about a month before it got boring, so I got an added idea! I added exactly 33 cents worth of pennies to the envelope so they paid EXTRA due to the weight. I got a call informing me about the money, I said it was a mistake and I demanded my change back. After yelling at the clerk and then to the supervisor they agreed to my demands and cut me a check for the money. I hold in my hand at this very moment a check from GTE Visa for exactly 33 cents.

  2. Office 2003 has DRM... by dotgod · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I've tried Office 2003 and it has DRM support. You can set restrictions on who can access Office documents that you create from the file menu.

  3. MMmm... by Raul654 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So I'm not the only person around here who knows what 120 days of Sodom are :)

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    To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
    --E.C. Stanton