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Are New DRM Technologies Setting Vista Up For Failure?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stand-you-up-to-knock-you-down dept.

PetManimal writes "Computerworld has picked apart the way Vista handles DRM in terms of hardware and software restrictions. Trusted Platform Module, Output Protection Management, Protected Video Path and various Windows Media software components are designed to 'protect' copyrighted content against security breaches and unauthorized use. The article notes that many of the DRM technologies were forced upon Vista by the entertainment industry, but that may not garner Microsoft or Hollywood any sympathy with consumers: 'Matt Rosoff, lead analyst at research firm Directions On Microsoft, asserts that this process does not bode well for new content formats such as Blu-ray and HD-DVD, neither of which are likely to survive their association with DRM technology. "I could not be more skeptical about the viability of the DRM included with Vista, from either a technical or a business standpoint," Rosoff stated. "It's so consumer-unfriendly that I think it's bound to fail — and when it fails, it will sink whatever new formats content owners are trying to impose."'"

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  1. Wait a minute.. by T-Bucket · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean, consumers might somehow be offended by being bent over by major corporation after major corporation??? When did this happen???

    1. Re:Wait a minute.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You know what they say:

      Nobody ever went broke underestimating the American public.

    2. Re:Wait a minute.. by Nanpa · · Score: 1, Funny
      Activation was never cracked well?

      Perhaps you'd like to meet my friend, Mr 'Corporate Key'

    3. Re:Wait a minute.. by Schemat1c · · Score: 2, Funny

      Except Linux could never have a monopoly, because it can be forked by a dissatisfied user at the slightest provocation.

      I think it's better for a user to fork an OS than the other way around. Of course that was most likely your point, I'll just go back to drinking my wine now...

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  2. yes no maybe fud notfud ponies by Quantam · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's about all I have to say on the matter.

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  3. Short answers to Slashdot Questions by vought · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are New DRM Technologies Setting Vista Up for Failure?

    Yes.

    This has been another episode of Short Answers to Slashdot Questions.

  4. Re:yes no maybe fud notfud ponies ...and! by dwandy · · Score: 4, Funny

    itsatrap!

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  5. What? New Media Formats to Fail? by mencomenco · · Score: 1, Funny

    "It's so consumer-unfriendly that I think it's bound to fail -- and when it fails, it will sink whatever new formats content owners are trying to impose."

    Could not possibly happen to a nicer bunch of folks...

  6. Re:Why would anyone have a problem with hardware D by myowntrueself · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey at least it'll save on the cost of backup media;

    You back your DRM movies to tape, your motherboard fails and the hard drives are now unreadable. You reinstall on a new motherboard and restore the data from tape. Only the DRM content 'knows' that its been 'copied' to 'a different machine' and won't play.

    So you give up on backups altogether and save a small fortune!

    See, Microsoft *does* have your best interests at heart!

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  7. Simple question, simple answer by slughead · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are New DRM Technologies Setting Vista Up for Failure?

    Nope, it's all that other stuff.

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  8. Get ready to add some new acronyms to your books by denmarkw00t · · Score: 2, Funny

    Along with DRM, the article gives us some new terminology:

    TPM - Trusted Platform Module
    OPM - Output Protection Management
    PVP - Protected Video Path
    DOM - Directions On Microsoft --oops, W3C may have some problems with that one...

  9. Re:Game Over by jibjibjib · · Score: 2, Funny
    But Win98 had that years ago.

    When I moved my Win98 hard drive from one box to another, it booted up, detected a new IDE bus chipset, and tried to install drivers for it, from the IDE CD-ROM drive, which was on the IDE bus, which it didn't have drivers for.