It is entirely reasonable to write code that communicates with the operating system's "sound card interfaces". This code would receive digital data that the system thinks will be played sonically, but simply redirect the data to a file. Hasn't this been done already?
W2K PDC functionality, which is what you get with Samba TNG lets you create accounts on your Linux box which are recognized by the W2K machines in your domain. So, the big thing here is that if you have x W2K boxes you don't need to go to each one to add a user. With a Samba TNG PDC the W2K machines will look to it to get account information.
Without a Samba-based PDC you've got to get NT Server, or go to each W2K machine and add acounts, both of which are major PITAs.
...Which makes Open Source OS's a threat to such schemes. On an open source system it's much easier to set things up to trick software. For this reason I think anybody trying to enforce such standards (including DVD/CSS) will always be wary of Open Source software --- it's one less layer of obscurity to protect them.
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It is entirely reasonable to write code that communicates with the operating system's "sound card interfaces". This code would receive digital data that the system thinks will be played sonically, but simply redirect the data to a file. Hasn't this been done already?
W2K PDC functionality, which is what you get with Samba TNG lets you create accounts on your Linux box which are recognized by the W2K machines in your domain. So, the big thing here is that if you have x W2K boxes you don't need to go to each one to add a user. With a Samba TNG PDC the W2K machines will look to it to get account information.
Without a Samba-based PDC you've got to get NT Server, or go to each W2K machine and add acounts, both of which are major PITAs.
...Which makes Open Source OS's a threat to such schemes. On an open source system it's much easier to set things up to trick software. For this reason I think anybody trying to enforce such standards (including DVD/CSS) will always be wary of Open Source software --- it's one less layer of obscurity to protect them.