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 ..."

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conspiracy theory

[potpie]

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.

You are an idiot

[Overly Critical Guy]

$168 million dollars is nothing to write home about?

When did Linux advocacy become so spiteful and selfish?