Re: Windows Vista DRM - existing screens need not apply
- From: "Derek R. Flickinger" <DrFlick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 20:36:32 -0400
I think you are barking up the wrong tree. Your equipment will work as
designed without all of the content protection schemes and you will be able
to watch *non premium* content at will. However, you will not even have the
option or be able to render any content that the providers do not want you
to without the OPM facilities in place and/or without paying extra for it.
You can purchase other platforms that do not support this level of
protection, but you will not have the option to view premium content, so
have you really gained what you wanted? You will be able to view the same
free content on either platform. At least Microsoft is giving you the
option if you want more. As stated, they are just the "bit messenger."
As far as " people in Germany and other places abroad writing device drivers
to get around this issue," more power to you. I suggest you digest the
technical documentation on how the internals of the PVP platform interact
before you assume someone can just "do their own thing" and have the
certificates to whatever they do, if they even run, be revoked worldwide.
=D-
"Pete Delgado" <Peter.Delgado@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OChOAfbzFHA.2076@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Comments inline:
>
> "Derek R. Flickinger" <DrFlick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:uZyS732yFHA.3152@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> The document available on this site puts it into perspective and details
>> how it really works (plus some of the intent behind it):
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/stream/output_protect.mspx
>>
>> We would like to reiterate, once again, that Microsoft is not the enemy
>> here.
>
> Really? Microsoft is attempting to serve two masters here and has kicked
> one master (the consumer) in the teeth. Microsoft is doing what the VCR
> manufacturers and cassette recorder manufacturers before them refused to
> do.
>
> Certianly Microsoft's solution is technically superior, but in the end we
> are left with consumers who are unable to something perfectly legal with
> the equipment that they have purchased simply because the provider of the
> content is worried that someone might steal their precious content.
>
>>Those really in control of what it does are the content providers.
>
> The content providers are the big lobbyists. They have a right to be
> compensated for their product, but not at the expense of the consumer -who
> is the one paying the bills.
>
>> Microsoft is "just the bit messenger." We only have been recommending
>> and implementing displays that support HDCP for quite some time now
>> because of what the future holds.
>
> What future? The future of people in Germany and other places abroad
> writing device drivers to get around this issue? The fact that other
> platforms won't have these restrictions? The fact that in the end,
> Microsoft is shooting itself in the foot?
>
> -Pete
>
>
>
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