Windows Vista was built from the bottom up for DRM. It is a very bad mistake and will probably get a worse reputation than Windows ME. It doesn't even work the same way as previous versions of Windows. What the hell were they thinking? People will return new computers in droves. When on idle my notebook which granted only has the minimal 512 MB which is required to run Vista has only 7 MB free! I will be replacing that memory chip with a 1 GB chip instead. The machine slogs around due to constantly needing to use virtual memory that it runs as slow as a Linux Live CD will run (actually Linux Mint Bianca which is based on Ubuntu but includes the multimedia support that Ubuntu does not runs faster as a Live CD than Vista on the same notebook). The funny thing is this notebook, due to being dual core encodes HD files in Divx faster than my desktop with XP Pro and a 3.4 ghz CPU!
Granted I've got a lot of data mining to do to get rid of so many things to make the notebook run sane. There is way too much hand-holding and I often get to see a cryptic "insufficient quota" message on it when I try to move large files across the network. I have never seen that one before on a Windows system. Microsoft deserves to loose big time for putting such a piece of crap on the market. I work and continue to work in the entertainment industry. I can vouch for the fact that most all the record companies and film companies are run by scum. Executives of either never actually understand how the technology they are delivering their goods with work. All they care about is making buttloads of money so they can by that new mansion in Tahiti or Boeing private jet. Compare that with the software industry that when the web started to break out embraced it as a "new means of distribution." How many years has the DVD encryption system been broken and yet they are still making buttloads of money on their movies many of which are crap? Why should they worry about HD-DVD copy protection being broken? I have also published stuff that is copyrighted and have even had it pirated. But you'd think that most of the copies of stuff the entertainment stuffed shirts are concerned about make up the majority of the market instead a small insignificant number. Then we have the government which sucking up to these industries passes such draconian laws that if you made a copy of a TV show for a friend while they were on vacation that they want to give you more prison time than if you murdered somebody. Totally absurd. I guess they think they need some more inmates for these privatized prisons they are building. It's time for American Revolution II and I don't mean a Fox reality series. TurquoiseB wrote: > Great article, great protest. > > This pandering to the copyright barons is also the > thing that has crippled Windows Vista, because > Microsoft capitulated to it. From what I hear, the > moment you launch any of its multimedia utilities, > the memory requirements of the operating system > double, and sometimes triple if you're trying to > play HD. I read one review/test of Vista in which > the tester was unable to run more than two other > programs (for example, Microsoft Word and Outlook) > in 2 Mb of memory (Microsoft's claimed minimum > memory requirement for Vista) when the OS went > into its "protect Microsoft from copyright > infringement suits" mode. They have effectively > crippled their OS and passed the cost of the > crippling (in the form of more memory being > required) by giving in to the lawyers. > > When are the copyright owners going to learn that > they're dealing with a "frontier" situation, and > outlaws, and that heavy-handed attempts to intimidate > the outlaws Just Aren't Going To Work? The outlaws > understand the tech, and the entertainment industry > lawyers do not. The outlaws are going to win every > time, because they've got Righteous Indignation on > their side. That and being 17 and having no assets > that can be effectively seized. :-) > > My favorite attempt-at-copy-protection story is the > short-lived scheme used by Sony corp. on its CDs. > They spent several million bucks coming up with a > copy-protection algorhythm that would prevent users > from copying their CDs. The only trouble with it > was that it actually *crashed* the users' computers > when they tried to play the CDs on them. Big no-no, > one that put the Righteous Indignation reaction into > hyperdrive. Within a week, someone had figured out > that the multi-million-dollar copy protection scheme > could be defeated using a 49-cent Magic Marker pen. > Simply use it to paint over the outside edge of the > CD, and it played (and copied) just fine on any > computer. No more crashes, no more copy protection. > Sony abandoned the scheme. > > That's the way that all such copy protection schemes > are going to be dealt with in the future. The hackers > are smarter than the people creating the protection > devices, and they're more motivated. The employees > of the entertainment industry companies who invent > these things are rewarded with (and thus motivated > by) an industry-standard salary and a Dilbert cube > that they can't even put up any of their photos of > Elle Macpherson in. The hackers are motivated by > Righteous Indignation, which doesn't pay as well in > dollars, but pays off Big-Time in terms of satis- > faction and peer approval. :-) > > Having worked on the peripheries of the music and > film industry at one point in my life, I have to > admit that I don't have a lot of compassion for the > companies who are screaming about being ripped off > by pirates. They've been Long John Silver to their > artists for decades now, ripping off the very people > who create their product every way they can possibly > imagine. And now the karma has come home to roost. > And about bloody time, in my opinion. I've known > musicians who sold over a million dollars worth of > product and who got a *bill* from their record > companies for the album. The smarmy lawyers of the > record companies had found a way to pass all of > *their* expenses onto the band, and make them pay > the company for the privilege of having made money > for them. Same with some small films. > > So do I feel bad about these entertainment industry > remoras losing a few bucks from pirates who take > advantage of this authorization code being spread > around on the Internet? I do not. When they start > treating the "talent" that pays for their Porsches > with a little more respect, I'll have more respect > for them. Until then, I'm siding with the pirates. > Ho ho ho, pass the bottle of rum, and plop that > HD copy of Pirates Of The Caribbean At World's > End into that Linux machine. Party time. :-) > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "vajradhatu108" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> 09 F9: A Simple Way to Stand Up Against the Latest Assault on >> > Digital Rights > >> By Annalee Newitz, AlterNet >> Posted on May 22, 2007 >> >> I <snip>
