I am not too thrilled about it either. I actually found myself sitting in the airport (ready to fly back from PDC) next to a Microsoft employee and we started talking about Vista DRM. He said that frankly a lot of people inside Microsoft are really unhappy with all the DRM stuff, but it has been accepted as an inevitability - eventually there will be laws past to require it. There are moves in the media industry to require DRM to play some media, so MS wants their customers to have access.
BTW, Linux will not always be DRM free. It won't be long and games will start employing and requiring full blown DRM, they have been employing copy protection and the like for longer then any other media. Linus has already said that he is open to DRM on Linux.
Forget boycotting products. Instead write your representatives and support the EFF.
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I would agree with all of that. I think Microsoft is getting beat up because it is trying to be an early adopter (or, an early anouncer). You know all of the TV and DVD player makers will be doing the same thing soon.
That said tho, I wonder how far DRM would make it without Microsoft's support?
That said tho, I wonder how far DRM would make it without Microsoft's support?
Without Microsoft supporting it woul seem that DRM would have a hard time being adopted, but the user would be the biggest complainer about that, and they would blame Microsoft.
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