From: "Rich Gauszka" 

good article -

'Digital Rights Management is really just an ecosystem for selling our own
stuff to us again and again'
'For one thing, Windows Vista will fail as both a preserver of digital
rights and a maintainer of pristine end-to-end DRM'd content. Vista will
fail because the job it is attempting to do is too hard, because Microsoft
isn't especially good at these huge integration jobs, and because there is
a smart hacker community determined to break Vista over and over again,
which it will.'



"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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> 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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