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Vista and the Music Industry
BanjoBob writes "Vista locks down all the DRM functionality and actually reduces the quality of playback of some media. This includes both audio and video content. As a company creating music and video products, how can we use Vista to create, distribute, and use legal media? I have read nothing to indicate that Vista has a model to allow 'authorized' use without causing problems. Currently we use Windows 2000 and Linux products. If what we understand is true, Vista and future Microsoft products won't be viable options for us since prior to publication, media must be copied multiple times, edited, moved around, re-edited and often modified into various forms (trailers, etc.) before, during, and after production. This naturally includes backups and recovery. If Vista is intent on prohibiting these uses, then Microsoft is intent on keeping their products out of the realm of content creation and editing. How do others deal with these issues?"
No, only meaningful work with competent creatives is done on Macs.
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Why do people keep insisting that hardware-enforced DRM (like Vista's) is somehow optional, like Active Desktop or ClearType fonts? IT IS NOT.
False. It is completely optional. Simply do not purchase protected content and you will *NEVER* have DRM. That's all there is to it.
This mis-characterization of the opposition is academically dishonest in every sense of the phrase.
No, it's not. The reason is that Guttman and others ALWAYS neglect to mention that unprotected content will NEVER suffer from anything they're talking about. Why is that? Why do they neglect to mention this? It's simply, don't want DRM, don't buy protected content.
What Guttman and others also fail to mention is that protected content won't play on ANY non-DRM supported system either. So whether or not Vista supports DRM is irrelevant, since the content that would be protected wouldn't play at all otherwise.
Not even MICROSOFT is saying that. In fact, here's what they have to say about it
Now YOU are bing intellectually dishonest. You're taking comments referring to Vista's overall backwards compatibility that have *NOTHING* to do with DRM and trying to use them in your anti-DRM argument. Vista, like XP before it, and Windows 2000 before it, have minor compatibility issues (64 bit has significantly more, but that's a different story). That's the cost of progress. OS X has lost compatibility between multiple versions of it's OS's, and even Linux has deprecated some functions.
The fact that the vast majority of hardware you'll be able to buy (regardless of DRM or OS) will be more expensive, less reliable, slower, and fundamentally vulnerable to DDOS attacks is of no concern to you?
So you lost your DRM argument and you have to go off onto other, even more flimsy arguments. Vista is *NOT* more expensive, nor has it been proven to be less reliable, and most independant tests say that Vista is just as fast (sometimes faster) than XP. Finally, your "fundamentally vulnerable to DDOS attacks" claim is paranoid lunacy with nothing backing it up. Pure FUD. That's all you can come up with?
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No. You can have unprotected files, but there are certain conditions under which Vista (and it's drivers) will "magically" downgrade the quality of any media going across certain paths. Mostly, it should only occur if you're trying to use protected media under 'improper conditions', but sometimes it can occur if the system just thinks that 'something may be wrong'.
Evidence to support your claims ?
Possible worst-case scenarios are: your business partner sends you a video clip in the email, not knowing that it's DRMed. You open the email while waiting for the final render of your $.5M video clip, and the presence of the 'unauthorized media' causes Vista to degrade the quality of the render for 30 seconds. If you're lucky and catch the problem, your QC people may spend hours unsuccessfully trying to track down the source of the problem.
Ah, I see, you're just making stuff up.
I suggest liberal application of tin foil to your cranium, it should help you significantly.
why not just argue that a glitch might destroy your hard drive while you're at it? Or blow up your computer? Or drive you insane with endless high pitch wining?
Sorry, but it's a stupid argument.
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