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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 ..."
Imagine a Beowolf Cluster of DRM!
Bugger Off, Microsoft
and niggers. and spics. and gooks.
when all the pirates download the DRM patch and get busted.
It isn't a "right" to use Windows and it isn't a right to not have DRM.
Why does slashdot think every little inane issue have something to do with rights, and liberties? These people need to take a Constitutional Law class .
Do you want good luck to follow you and your offspring for geneations to come? This troll has the solution for you...
All you have to do is copy this troll onto two to four of the discussion threads of your choice! That's right! Just copy this into a new message and click "post anonymously." That's all there is to it! *
Tired of that idiot talking about geek culture! Stick one of these babies on it! And it's good for the economy!
Marge Gentry of Cambridge, Minnesota participated, and the next day she received a large fruit basket outside of her door from a secret admirer. Unfortunately, Marge was hit by a truck the next day, so she didn't get to the Granny Smith apples.
Commander Taco of Hole-in-the-ground West Virginia didn't participate, and he was violated by a group of raging homosexuals. Since the gang was headed by Jon Katz, Taco had no recourse to the law because the entire town knew about their previous relationship. The unfortunate outcome is enshrined forever at goatse.cx.
So if you want to get the fruit basket and not get poked in the bread basket, just copy this troll onto two of the discussions threads of your choice. We could have this place blanketed by sundown!
Debian gnu/linux 3.1 will be including software called Debian electronic rights agent (dera) has got dubious entries in a file called /etc/dera. It sends a compressed list to deba.debian.org of all your files and hardware.
J SJKFSDKFJ350489598309803590480958909480wrjkld-4589 532933 984983983938S
I'm NOT joking, heres the file from Debians private 3.1 tree, that will be released to the public on wednesday.
#DERA for Debian Sarge beta 1
#CPUID is a propeitry hash of the users hardware, must
CPUID : J58945893945980359833
#DEBID is a very long hash of the users installed software
DEBID : 05945jk4ekjldlkfd594598590849854983093409SZFSJKSK
#DRMI is digital rights management info. Another hash of the users current rights, DERA will delete ALL software if this hash is corrupt.
DRMI : L554894554I983893N89459UJXS594589325Ukj;C9889544K
Here is the information about dera
all those jews, catholics, trade unionists and p2p file sharers who were locked in cattle cars going by. I was going to object but hey, what do I care, I'm not not a jew/catholic/trade unionist/p2p file trader.
I am a developer of the debian tree. We had to implement this because commerical companies want a secure way to run linux programs on the desktop
Nazumi Oriko -- Debian developer.
I've never wanted to become one of those conspiracy-theorists who thinks that any new thing Microsoft is an evil plot contrived for the purpose of making more money while at the same time screwing customers, using an already established near-monopoly to crush competition and screw customers, or just screwing customers. Unfortunately, one of these is usually the case.
Esoteric reference.
MOD PARENT DOWN, CONTAINS GOATSE.CX LINK
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
It doesn't matter what the regular person would have to donate in comparison. That's just your excuse to try and take away the fact that he actually is generous person with his money b/c it makes you feel more comfortable to fit in with his total borg persona. Tax write off or not, he still donated the money.
What did you donate today?
Keep saying that. Keep turning the blind eye. I assume you're a conservative christian who's sits on the board of a large company, otherwise you're just defending your persecutors.
Soon all media will require DRM. Meaning all broadcasted speech will require DRM. The keys to that DRM are held by the boys in charge. Don't agree with their ideals, don't get the keys to speak. Watch the nation turn a blind eye while it all happens again. It's allready starting with Islamic people in quantanimo bay. Very few people even care about that, you think they're going to give a shit when they come for you or your grandkids and they don't even find out about it because of the DRM? A small piece of the puzzle now, but in the future, it's going to be very very important.
Next time think before you post.
$168 million dollars is nothing to write home about?
When did Linux advocacy become so spiteful and selfish?
"Sufferin' succotash."
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Let's be real here. The 'fair use' rights that so many people here cite were hammered out in an era when the way people excercized their 'fair use' rights was by putting a record on the spindle and making an analog copy of it using a reel to reel or cassette deck. That still remains within the realm of possibilities. There is no inherent 'fair use' right that dictates that a media publisher must publish their work in a format that makes it convenient for you to excercize your fair use rights. The whole precedent people champion today was tested and determined in an era when people thought nothing of using the analog line out, or even aligator clipping on to the speakers (the way my father did it back in the early 70's on his old Columbia console stereo).
Point a camera at the screen of your DRM-protected television/video monitor, use line out or point bloody microphones at the speakers to get audio. That is what 'fair use' entitles you to, and nothing more.
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