"Gutmann generated a lot of heat last December with the publication of a paper that called Windows Vista's Content Protection scheme 'the longest suicide note in history'. He updated it in April, mostly to call his critics names, and he updated it yet again yesterday with a top-of-the-page slam at my ZDNet colleague George Ou, who took exception with some of Gutmann's claims yesterday. Gutmann has a flair for melodramatic language and headline-grabbing phrases, but his theoretical arguments against Vista's video subsystem fall apart quickly when they make contact with the real world."
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I wonder when Apple will include native HDCP in their OS to play BlueRay movies.
Meh, it doesn't matter. When it happens, people will find a way to excuse it because, since it's Apple doing it and not MS, then it must be ok.
Same when HDCP support comes to Linux (if it isn't there already). With Linux becoming more commercialized every day, it's not a question of if all this DRM will be 'officially' supported, but only a question of when. Then all the people who flocked to Linux to escape DRM hell are not going to be looking very smart.
Member since:2006-03-12
"Then all the people who flocked to Linux to escape DRM hell are not going to be looking very smart."
The flaw in your logic is that you can simply take the crippling garbage out of an OS that is Open source. Its not like Apple or Microsoft's offerings GNU has a free market.
More obviously Linux is funded currently by companies focused on the *Server* they do not want DRM implemented *this* way, where stability and performance matter more than content provision.
Now if you were arguing that to play what Microsoft call "premium content"(sic) GNU has to have an implementation much like Vista's, you may have had a point.
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2005-06-29
I wonder when Apple will include native HDCP in their OS to play BlueRay movies.