Vista DRM Cracked Already?

Windows IT PRo Magazine ^ | 1/31/07 | Mark Joseph Edwards

[Space Wrangler]

What do you mean you don't have choice, here's a single source offering quote "75,425 FREE MP3s".

The free ones consisted of indie artists that no one has ever heard of before, and the popular music was available for sampling from that website only. Nice try though.

[N3WBI3]

What is the difference between limiting the number of rooms you can read a bed time story on and limiting the number of devices a piece of lullaby music can play one?

[N3WBI3]

:s/one/on/g

[Golden Eagle]

Just showing you do have a choice. But just like Apple computers, if you want something premium there is usually a premium cost, which is the reward for excellence when paid back to the provider.

[Golden Eagle]

What is the difference between limiting the number of rooms you can read a bed time story on and limiting the number of devices a piece of lullaby music can play one?

Obviously you won't be reading but in one room at a time unless you have multiple copies of the book.

[Space Wrangler]

I have no problem with paying a premium price for premium content. Once. Holding my premium content hostage, once I've paid the premium price is out of the question though.

[steve-b]

Mediaplayer phones home the names and times of any porn videos watched, it's all reported.

I have a mental image of some mid-level Microsoft drone who gets off on "watching" other people watching porn.

[steve-b]

Ultimately, the just solution is to punish infringement of fair-use prerogatives as severely as we punish infringement of copyright prerogatives. However, this requires removal of the current crop of coin-operated legislators.

[Golden Eagle]

Holding my premium content hostage, once I've paid the premium price is out of the question

So the Russian hackers that cracked OSX to run on cheap PC's were perfectly justified, so that those who simply paid for OSX could run it without actually paying for the Apple hardware? Even if they actually did own one Mac, they should be able to run it on as many cheap PC's as they have in their house?

[corlorde]

"No reason NOT to get Vista Now IF you meet the requirements."

Oh, I meet the requirements, but there are plenty of reasons NOT to get Vista NOW.

[Echo Talon]

Do what ya want, I'm just telling you that MOST of what you have been reading about Vista is BS. It's Good.

[corlorde]

LOL, alright my friend, fair enough.

[Blue Highway]

I'm content with XP Pro. Why change?

Same here.

[mylife]

Ok, I have downloaded knoppix 5.1.1 and created a bootable image, and figured out how to set my screen resolution, but Im unsure as to how to set up Beryl, can you give an assist?

[mylife]

I was playing with a beta of Vista on my laptop (it was a little under powered) and tried to play a piece of music that the OS simply refused to play because of DRM.... I had written it on a Yamaha Motif ES8 and recorded it on an XP machine with Cakewalk 9 and Sony Soundforge. According to Vista's DRM, I didn't have permission to PLAY MY OWN MUSIC.

There is the problem with these power mad jerks, in a nutshell! 86 posted on 02/02/2007 8:37:25 AM CST by

[Fred Hayek]

On my laptop I am still running Windows2000 due to XP not playing well with a proprietary communication driver. XP runs on my desktop for AutoCAD, most office stuff. As far as the process simulation goes, that's the Mac. So the marketing of the Mac is towards graphics and art types, and libs. I have been using the Mac in its various forms for realtime modeling (mostly for control systems validation) since the early nineties. And the drivers are there for Allen Bradley, Modicon, Honeywell, Foxboro, you name it. Of course now OS-X is UNIX.

And I do have one platform that runs '95, and will never be upgraded. The big reason is its ability to run old DOS programs, which are used for programming some early (as in 1980's)PLC's. Big market for replacing these old control processors, yet I still have to be able to extract and print out the old program to configure a more up to date replacement (think replacing an old Westinghouse NumaLogics with a much more current Allen Bradley).