Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

This stuff really sucks man, seriously sometimes I get a bit excited about Vista but then I read this kind of stuff and I think to myself, I´m a stay with XP.

Sorry I forgot the link:

http://www.miraesoft.com/karel/2006/12/25/cost-analysis-of-windows-vista-content-protection/

 

Are you talking about this article?

 

Two more, then:

'DRM infested nightmares of consumer rights removal'
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36574

'Vista crippled by content protection'
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=7675

 

Oh boy I feel so stupid, I knew I forgot something. I´ve added the link.

 

Hello,

First a nice read:

http://blog.wired.com/music/2006/12/warner_music_ce.html

Second, Linux.

Mrk

 

third action


http://www.lessig.org/blog/ > Free Culture > short flash version
(professor of law Stanford) http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

Creative Commons
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Public Knowledge
Free Software Foundation

and just scream your bloody head off in general, to friends, neighbors and perfect strangers
(skip law enforcement unless you have a good attorney )

 

Ice_Czar, that Lessig link was really good. Thanks!

 

your welcome

and now for some more direct action

Hacker Cracks High-Def DVD Encryption System

 

not quite confirmation
http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/27/aacs-drm-cracked-by-backuphddvd-tool/

the doom9 thread makes for some interesting reading but confirmation is still very much up in the air
seems the application itself wouldnt be all that hard but extracting the volume keys and how that was done....