Microsoft Unveils New Copy Protection
from the any-better? dept
Continuing efforts by the content industry to make sure people can do less with content than they could before, Microsoft is releasing new copy protection technology today. It still amazes me that an entire industry could be so focused on preventing people from doing what they want. In other news - just not reported yet - it's likely that plenty of people have already figured out how to break Microsoft's new copy protection scheme. Update: Link updated because some idiotic newspaper site decides to recycle links every few hours.
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bad link
P.S. what are you doing posting at 3 AM? - there might be a connection between that and the bad link :-)
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Can someone tell moronic newspaper sites that recycling links every few hours defeats the purpose of the web. If someone wants to pass on a link they've just made their site useless.
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Well, I doubt MSFT *wants* to do this...
At any rate, I don't see why anyone complains about DRM. It's so utterly trivial to get around (sound recorder anyone?)...
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