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Will Apple Follow Microsoft's Lead to Restrictive DRM?
Steve Ryan asks: "The direction Microsoft are taking with Windows (for example, the DRM issues in Vista) have led me to believe Windows will soon be an OS which controls the user, rather than the other way round. I like XP, and I find it stable, but I do not want to upgrade to an OS (Vista) which is restrictive. This leaves me with either Linux or Mac OS X. I like Linux, but it may not work with my laptop, so I don't really want to risk it. OS X seems nice. I spend most of my time writing documents and surfing the web, so it should handle everything I want, and I would be happy to buy a lovely MacBook Pro. This leaves me with my question: Will Apple follow Microsoft's lead and implement a DRM loving policy?"
Did you know that no DRM technology in existence can stop me from re-recording something to a DRM-less file by looping the Stereo Mixer back through the input internally on my sound card and re-recording it in realtime with full quality and so can like 95% of the computers out there with like 3 clicks of the mouse. But here's the kicker: a lot of newer Intel boards have disabled that ability because people are using it to un-DRM files and record stuff from streaming online radio stations. And guess what new processor Apple can run on? Yup, and I don't think they'll resist disabling that technique on their boards too. So, will Apple follow Microsoft's lead and implement a DRM loving policy? The correct answer is who cares because ILuvRamen has an AMD Windows system, lol.
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Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 was the last Microsoft operating system where the user was in control. With SP3, Windows Update could make your machine a slave to the mothership in Redmond. In XP, most machines were slaved to Redmond. Remember the day Microsoft rebooted everybody by remote control via Windows Update? Vista just continues the trend - you will obey the commands from the mothership, or your machine stops working.
Obey or Die - brought to you by Microsoft.
Color me surprised. For some reason I thought Microsoft (and any other OS developer who wants in on most HD media format functionality) had to use DRM.
I also had this faint notion that Apple already surpasses most companies in terms of how deep they are in DRM, but hey! They're Apple. Apple is hip, and DRM is not, so I guess they don't "do" DRM.
I'm guesting whomever posted this is either a troll or a shill. Or uninformed.
I'm still trying to figure out why anyone would spend $1,000 for a Radeon X1600 graphics card and a keyboard that lights up (yes, blatant oversimplification between the two, but ...)