As I said in my first post, dishonest people impose costs on all of us. I do not like it; I wish it were not so. I wish it were not necessary for me to have locks on my doors or to present ID whenever I have to cash a check or to remember a password to log into a favorite web site.
I am not saying that I approve of what Microsoft et al. are doing to protect IP rights. Personally, I do not enjoy having to deal with yet another burdensome security measure. And as some suggest, it may very well backfire as a business decision.
What I am saying is that those companies have every right to protect their IP. In so doing, they are not the villains in this tale. Instead of condemning them, anger should be directed toward those who would violate their IP.
Wrong.
Sony just lost on this in court.
When your DRM makes my computer unusable you are at fault and liable for the damage the DRM caused. Thus the incentive to get Microsoft to do the dirty work (as it is so hard to win against Microsoft as they could care less about bad press).
Unless Microsoft offers a Vista DRM free they will either lose in court or be forced out of the market. I refuse to buy anything that hobbles my computer and makes it unusable for its real purpose and that is not HD Movies. I will not infect my PC with Draconian versions of DRM.
Us tech guys will get the word out and Vista will fail miserably. We already got Microsoft to stop it's scheme of making Vista only installable twice (Buy a third Hard Drive and the OS will not install).
Vista is simply not needed. We will force NVidia et all to make XP versions of hardware until Microsoft removes DRM from Vista.
Enough bad press and Microsoft sometimes listens.