VISTA DRM
p2pnet.net news view:- Earlier today we ran a brief saying Bill and the Boyz have released Vista to Big Business. Us common folk aren’t slated to be in line for it until the end of January next year.
“I’m sure most of you aren’t, but if any readers are considering moving to Vista, please read this first,” suggests Chris Ovenden in a Reader’s Write.
The link points to a long Wikipedia post describing features new to Vista. The section Chris thinks you might find interesting is slugged Digital Rights Management or, as p2pnet prefers to call it, CCT (Consumer Control Technology).
Either way, it is indeed worth a look, so here it is:
Digital Rights Management
Microsoft is introducing a number of Digital Rights Management and content-protection features in Windows Vista, to help digital content providers, corporations, and end-users protect their data from being copied.
* PUMA: Protected User Mode Audio (PUMA) is the new User Mode Audio (UMA) audio stack. Its aim is to provide an environment for audio playback that restricts the copying of copyrighted audio, and restricts the enabled audio outputs to those allowed by the publisher of the protected content[16].
* Protected Video Path – Output Protection Management (PVP-OPM) is a technology that prevents copying of protected digital video streams, or their display on video devices that lack equivalent copy protection (typically HDCP). Microsoft claims that without these restrictions the content industry may prevent PCs from playing copyrighted content by refusing to issue license keys for the encryption used by HD DVD, Blu-Ray Disc, or other copy-protected systems[16].
* Protected Video Path – User-Accessible Bus (PVP-UAB) is similar to PVP-OPM, except that it applies encryption of protected content over the PCI Express bus.
* Rights Management Services (RMS) support, a technology that will allow corporations to apply DRM-like restrictions to corporate documents, email, and intranets to protect them from being copied, printed, or even opened by people not authorized to do so. MSN Spaces will also offer an open RMS server that home users and smaller businesses can use to extend this ability to their own documents.[citation needed]
Cheers, Chris.
Also See:
common folk – Vista goes to Big Business, November 9, 2006
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November 10th, 2006 at 12:49 am
I switched over to Sabayan linux using dvd shrink and dvd decrpter for cooking my own dvd backups of my favorite css decypted bullshit movies,
You know What ?
Saybayan linux is opensource free or minimal cost works well with Intel 686 hardware and no one os installation per machine and online activation as with bullshit window sucks.
November 10th, 2006 at 1:43 am
The new Windows Vista really has crossed the line in good taste. There is absolutely no way I am going to install it on any of my computers. I use primarily Ubuntu Linux, which is probably the easiest Linux distro around. For some of my favourite games that can’t be emulated properly I use Windows XP.
When the day comes that big game makers start publishing their hit titles to Linux based operating systems too, Windows is going to have a hard time surviving as the #1 OS. You know, in my opinion it’s the games that could really make a difference. Often when I hear someone commenting about their reasons for not installing Linux, there’s usually an answer like “Because the newest games don’t work on it”.
November 10th, 2006 at 1:57 am
…”support, a technology that will allow corporations to apply DRM-like restrictions to corporate documents, email, and intranets to protect them from being copied, printed, or even opened by people not authorized to do so…”
So does that mean pedophiles and real terrorists can hide their documents from the government or will there be a backdoor for uncle Sam? If there’s a backdoor crackers will find it and read corporate documents anyway.
November 10th, 2006 at 3:25 am
So RMS allows companies to place limits on what can be done with emails that people recieve? Does this mean that i could send an email that i won’t allow anyone else to delete to someone working for another company and they still won’t be able to delete it?
What if the email i have sent is spam? Or obscene? Or both?
Typical MS, all their devs are nerds straight out of primary school. They’ve got no idea what the real world is like, but i’m sure their managers have heard about it. Once or twice.
November 10th, 2006 at 6:18 am
Microsoft Windows Fascist Addition.
This edition will follow you around, tap your phone, berate you as being a communist, & scream at you “We must check your papers” before you can log on.
Linux, in comparison, is “V For Vendetta.”
November 10th, 2006 at 9:46 am
There’s some truth in this. But it will be a long time before games manufacturers stop supporting XP. My main concern is that people will end up with Vista through the back door, just by buying a new PC. We need a campaign to harass Dell etc into offering Linux-ready PCs on the high street. Ubuntu would be a good choice for this.
November 10th, 2006 at 9:49 am
I think Niels Ferguson was sincere in his denial there would be a deliberate back door in Vista’s cryptogtaphy. But as we know, all DRM schemes are fallible by definition.
I understand terrorists use open email so as not to attract attention.
November 12th, 2006 at 3:13 am
Ubuntu has to be one of the LEAST impressive things I’ve seen. I hear all kinds of wonderful stories about how great it is, but I’ve found out quite a few interesting things just by trying to install it:
* Oh my f*cking GOD, it is SLOW. Slow to boot, slow to operate, slow to install, slow all around. Even on a P4 with 384MB of RAM, it is ungodly slow, even running off the hard drive.
* There is actually a significant lack of many important things, such as ndiswrapper. People will have hell on earth trying to use wireless on many new pieces of hardware without it. I know this from personal experience.
* The CD has surprisingly little software with it. If you’re not Internet-enabled with a high-speed connection, it’s not very useful out of the box for anything but the most basic tasks.
* I don’t understand how GNOME + X11 + hal/dbus + system daemons + CUPS, etc. added up to a minimum of 192MB of RAM required (what the HELL is going on under the hood?!). It seems like if I don’t set up swap in a command prompt and I have 256MB of RAM or less, the installer gets killed by the oom_killer.
* I’ve used Debian, KNOPPIX, CRUX, and uCRUX before. All of them seem to at least be consistent, both in behavior and in heavy, thorough documentation. KNOPPIX is my current favorite Live CD for a reason–I put it in a 256MB machine and it never seems to need swap for anything–AND it has such things as NTFS tools, CIFS support, XMMS, and other fun stuff, right out of the box. Debian, while slow as dirt to update (and thus not as useful for new stuff), is a very well-constructed system. CRUX is what it is, a masochistic, bare-bones, roll-your-own system that’s fantastic for constructing servers from scratch to minimize size and unnecessary components, and uCRUX is the uClibc variant of the same–both very usable after compiling stuff and installing, and you know what you’re getting into. Ubuntu, however, does things in strange ways and seems to behave inconsistently and slowly all-around.
I will not be touching Ubuntu again for a while. I’ve had better luck with sticking KNOPPIX on a hard drive from a DVD than I’ve ever gotten with Ubuntu, and Kubuntu is even worse. Xubuntu is slightly promising but still fails miserably.
I honestly think that the problem with Linux distributions that’s preventing them from being adopted more easily are as follows:
* WINE is a giant pain to set up. One should be able to install Windows software to WINE without having to play config file tag or shuffle directories all day. This would reduce the barrier to entry so far, it’s almost like a Holy Grail of Transitioning. Once I can run a DirectX 8 game or eMule on WINE crashless out-of-the-box 95% of the time with little to no speed losses, I’ll dive into Linux pretty fast.
* Setup is not the problem. Setup is something that is usually done by geeks anyway, and creating a Linux “recovery CD” is a simple matter of making a bootable CD with scripts and a compressed filesystem image. I don’t see Linux setup as the problem. Configurability, however, is a big problem. The best example is that it’s pretty easy to use a printer shared from a Windows machine on a Linux machine, but if you try to SHARE A PRINTER FROM THE LINUX MACHINE, there’s NO easy way to do it, PERIOD. It’s CUPS and Samba configuration file editing and hammering and service reloading until it works! I spent one hour dropping KNOPPIX on a hard drive to get someone back up and running without the HP recovery CD quickly (she only needed Mozilla software and OpenOffice!). The sharing of the printer consumed another 2.5 hours and much HOWTO and FAQ and manual reading. Configurability and integration…please?
* Konqueror is too slow, and so is Nautilus. Why? Software bloat. No matter how hard the KDE developers try to say that KDE isn’t really bloated, IT IS. The fact that CPUs and memory and hard drives are always getting faster and OH, MY COMPUTER IS TOO SLOW, JUST GET ANOTHER ONE is not an excuse for bloated software.
I use Linux on my laptops, but it’s usually Debian or CRUX. Ubuntu was on a laptop once…it was so bad that I had to quit trying to work with it.
January 4th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
Ubuntu is double crap