If the stuck with old standards, then you wouldnt be forced to upgrade..
That's almost a sentence.
Seriously, though, this is the nature of technology- it improves over time. It's the same reason I can't play MP3 discs in my old CD player (and why I can't play CDs on my record player). Quit whining. If you don't like it, switch to another platform.
Or makes it harder too use things they have bought in legal ways (how do I backup my Blue Ray disks like I do my DVDs?- I don't yet because of DRM).
Yes, that is an unfortunate side effect. DRM seems to be necessary, however, due to the ever increasing piracy problem. In a capitalistic society, people produce products to be sold- that's how we live. When people choose to steal said products, those who produce are adversely affected. It's not such an obvious problem for wealthier, more mass-marketed media, but it is a serious problem for less widely distributed and marketed media.
I don't need DRM. I intend to avoid the media "products" that require DRM in the hardware and the OS. I can find other ways to entertain myself.....
And that's the beauty of it- no one is forcing you. The trend seems to be to digitally protect media, though, and you may find yourself running out of unprotected material as time goes on.
I much rather prefer that people follow the laws (and simple morality) with respect to copyrights than deal with the increased costs and side effects of DRM, but unfortunately many people simply have no conscience when it comes to theft.
I have seen one blue screen on Windows XP due to a faulty sound card driver.
Now, I've also seen blank screens on several Linux distributions on many different modern hardware configurations because either (1) there are no appropriate drivers for modern video cards or (2) whatever hacked-together drivers are available are faulty.
I for one find the security of MS Windows as a whole to be insufficient.
Perhaps that's because you're ignorant of the security measures in Windows 2000 and later operating systems. If you run as an administrator, you place yourself at increased risk (this is no different than running as root on *nix). I have no problems running as a reduced privilege user with XP Professional. Yes, I've had to tweak file and registry permissions due to a few poorly-written applications, but that's not a flaw in the operating system- that's just developers being lazy and ignorant.
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If the stuck with old standards, then you wouldnt be forced to upgrade..
That's almost a sentence.
Seriously, though, this is the nature of technology- it improves over time. It's the same reason I can't play MP3 discs in my old CD player (and why I can't play CDs on my record player). Quit whining. If you don't like it, switch to another platform.
Or makes it harder too use things they have bought in legal ways (how do I backup my Blue Ray disks like I do my DVDs?- I don't yet because of DRM).
Yes, that is an unfortunate side effect. DRM seems to be necessary, however, due to the ever increasing piracy problem. In a capitalistic society, people produce products to be sold- that's how we live. When people choose to steal said products, those who produce are adversely affected. It's not such an obvious problem for wealthier, more mass-marketed media, but it is a serious problem for less widely distributed and marketed media.
I don't need DRM. I intend to avoid the media "products" that require DRM in the hardware and the OS. I can find other ways to entertain myself..... And that's the beauty of it- no one is forcing you. The trend seems to be to digitally protect media, though, and you may find yourself running out of unprotected material as time goes on.
I much rather prefer that people follow the laws (and simple morality) with respect to copyrights than deal with the increased costs and side effects of DRM, but unfortunately many people simply have no conscience when it comes to theft.
I noticed none of the two reason are what users want.
Oh my gosh! Do you mean that users don't want a technology that prevents them from stealing? I'm shocked!
It's unfortunate that we need DRM, but there are quite a few dishonest people that simply don't feel convicted to actually purchase media.
I have seen one blue screen on Windows XP due to a faulty sound card driver.
Now, I've also seen blank screens on several Linux distributions on many different modern hardware configurations because either
(1) there are no appropriate drivers for modern video cards or
(2) whatever hacked-together drivers are available are faulty.
I for one find the security of MS Windows as a whole to be insufficient.
Perhaps that's because you're ignorant of the security measures in Windows 2000 and later operating systems. If you run as an administrator, you place yourself at increased risk (this is no different than running as root on *nix). I have no problems running as a reduced privilege user with XP Professional. Yes, I've had to tweak file and registry permissions due to a few poorly-written applications, but that's not a flaw in the operating system- that's just developers being lazy and ignorant.