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Vista a Threat to Internet Freedom?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the leave-it-to-business-to-ruin-a-good-time dept.

BBC columnist Bill Thompson warns readers that new DRM technology, especially that found in Vista, is damaging the freedoms that the internet was based on. "The freedom of expression that was once available to users of the Internet Protocol is being stripped away. Our freedom to play, experiment, share and seek inspiration from the creative works of others is increasingly restricted so that large companies can lock our culture down for their own profit. [...] governments and corporations around the world are making a concerted effort to dismantle the open internet and replace it with a regulated and regulable one that will allow them to impose an 'architecture of control.'"

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  1. Duh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Freedom and profit don't mix.

  2. Vista SP1 Will Fix Problems by phalse+phace · · Score: 0, Troll

    SP1 for Vista will correct the problem and the Internets will be free again....

  3. Re:Culture is a commodity by antifoidulus · · Score: 0, Troll

    You speak of arrogance and yet didn't even bother to read all my argument before responding. Note I mentioned the word "public domain" I don't believe a corporation should own a copyright forever. Read before responding with pseudo intellectual babble next time, k?

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  4. Re:Get to the Root of the Problem by 7of7 · · Score: 1, Troll

    So all you people saying that producers whose products are "copied for free" should just stop making them are willing to lose the entirety of the music, movie, and software industries? You may say to yourself "but the FOSS community will back me up." You'd be wrong. Without the for profit software industry very few people would pursue careers in software and universities would be forced to cut their CS and likely their CE programs down to the core. Without universities the FOSS community would be nothing. Without for profit companies like Google funding the FOSS movement it would be nothing. It's not a good idea to destroy several industries simply because a majority of people are completely unscrupulous when they think no one is watching.

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  5. Oh. by Dissectional · · Score: 0, Troll

    Vista is about as big a threat to Internet Freedom as Slashdot is a threat to the Oprah Winfrey Show.

  6. get over it slashdot! by tnhtnh · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh god.. Unleash the anti-MS spam...