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From: mike 


"Digital Rights Management is really just an ecosystem for selling our own
stuff to us again and again."

yup.

 /m


On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 13:21:04 -0500, "John Beamish"
 wrote:

>Here is Bob Cringely's analysis:
>http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2006/pulpit_20061229_001403.html
>
>I agree with him.  MS has been able to distinguish between its clients and
>its purchasers.
>
>
>On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 00:16:33 -0500, Rich Gauszka
> wrote:
>
>> Gutman:  "If I do ever want to play back premium
content," he wrote,
>> "I'll
>> wait a few years and then buy a $50 Chinese-made set-top player to do it,
>> not a $1000 Windows PC. It's somewhat bizarre that I have to go to
>> Communist
>> China in order to find vendors who actually understand the consumer's
>> needs."
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/vista_drm_analysis/
>>

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