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to: Ad
from: mike
date: 2006-11-16 17:02:20
subject: Re: 1 4 Geo R wrt Vista & DRM

From: mike 

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:07:27 +0000, Ad
 wrote:

>http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=
9005047&intsrc=hm_ts_head
>
>Fairly compendious.
>
>One has to agree wrt one of the central themes which is who does it
>benefit....not the consumer....
>

From the article:

===
... By any standard, Vista's new DRM capabilities -- aimed at protecting
the rights of content owners by placing limits on how consumers can use
digital media -- hardly qualify as a selling point; after all, it's hard to
sing the praises of technology designed to make life harder for its users.
...
===

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