VISTA DRM

p2pnet.net news view:- Earlier today we ran a brief saying Bill and
the Boyz have released Vista to Big Business. Us common folk aren't
slated to be in line for it until the end of January next year.

"I'm sure most of you aren't, but if any readers are considering
moving to Vista, please read this first," suggests Chris Ovenden 
in a Reader's Write.

The link points to a long Wikipedia post describing features new to
Vista. The section Chris thinks you might find interesting is slugged
Digital Rights Management or, as p2pnet prefers to call it, CCT
(Consumer Control Technology).

Either way, it is indeed worth a look, so here it is:

    Digital Rights Management

    Microsoft is introducing a number of Digital Rights Management and
content-protection features in Windows Vista, to help digital content
providers, corporations, and end-users protect their data from being
copied.

    * PUMA: Protected User Mode Audio (PUMA) is the new User Mode
Audio (UMA) audio stack. Its aim is to provide an environment for
audio playback that restricts the copying of copyrighted audio, and
restricts the enabled audio outputs to those allowed by the publisher
of the protected content[16].

    * Protected Video Path - Output Protection Management (PVP-OPM) is
a technology that prevents copying of protected digital video streams,
or their display on video devices that lack equivalent copy protection
(typically HDCP). Microsoft claims that without these restrictions the
content industry may prevent PCs from playing copyrighted content by
refusing to issue license keys for the encryption used by HD DVD, Blu-
Ray Disc, or other copy-protected systems[16].

    * Protected Video Path - User-Accessible Bus (PVP-UAB) is similar
to PVP-OPM, except that it applies encryption of protected content
over the PCI Express bus.

    * Rights Management Services (RMS) support, a technology that will
allow corporations to apply DRM-like restrictions to corporate
documents, email, and intranets to protect them from being copied,
printed, or even opened by people not authorized to do so. MSN Spaces
will also offer an open RMS server that home users and smaller
businesses can use to extend this ability to their own
documents.[citation needed]

Cheers, Chris.

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Cheers, Steve...

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