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Microsoft Answers Vista DRM Critics' Claims

Posted by Zonk on from the don't-believe-everything-you-read-on-the-interwebs dept.

skepsis writes "Recently there have been some stories on Slashdot claiming that Vista would downgrade the quality of audio and video for every application in a machine where protected content was running. One of the stories painted a scary scenario where a 'medical IT worker who's using a medical imaging PC while listening to audio/video played back by the computer' would have his medical images 'deliberately degraded.' A post has been put up on the Vista team blog explaining exactly how the content protection works, and it turns out the medical IT staff and audio pros can relax. From the post: 'It's important to emphasize that while Windows Vista has the necessary infrastructure to support commercial content scenarios, this infrastructure is designed to minimize impact on other types of content and other activities on the same PC. For example, if a user were viewing medical imagery concurrently with playback of video which required image constraint, only the commercial video would be constrained -- not the medical image or other things on the user's desktop.'"

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  1. OT - Gates as Borg picture by PingXao · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is OT so mod me down at will... I hate that Bill Gates Borg pic on the main stories page. It was what prompted me to register here at Slashdot: the ability to customize my front page and turn those story icons off.

    I had a bookmark that logged me in and took me right to my customized front page with one click. Now, for some reason, that 1-click logon to custom FP is gone. Site redisgn, cookies, javascript, Ajax, I don't know what the reason is. All I know is this: The inability to bookmark an auto-login front page at /. is causing me to to visit the site less.

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  2. Open source answers Microsoft's claims by smittyoneeach · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Now, when I want to sit down and accomplish something with media,
    this is supposed to be a happy occasion. Let's not bicker and argue over who DRM'd who.
    That's why we reach for the good stuff: http://ubuntustudio.org/
    Remember lads, "If it's not chess, it's poker, and you may be the pokee".
    s/chess/FOSS/
    s/poker/proprietary/
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  3. Re:Marketdroid speak by Scarletdown · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm not familiar with Lost. Is that one of those reality shows or something?

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  4. Re:And we are to believe the VISTA developers? by ehrichweiss · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Flamebait? Sounds like some M$ fanboys got mod points today.

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  5. Re:And we are to believe the VISTA developers? by jZnat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    MS fanboys and astroturfers are always getting mod points sadly. The best we can do is combat it with M2 and hope they rarely (if ever) get mod points again.

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  6. Re:Marketdroid speak by Hal_Porter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42

    Mysterious, huh?

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