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<blockquote data-quote="cowpie" data-source="post: 101193" data-attributes="member: 25477"><p>Well it's affecting hardware as you can read in the cost analysis of vista drm, see the problems with graphics cards. That means less or no interoperability with Linux, yet again lock-in, and much less control for the user to do what they want with hardware they paid money for.</p><p></p><p>If it's not digitally signed it will be play. But it won't be up to the control of the user who BUYS their music, it's all in the hands of industry who dictate whether you can open up your .drm-protected file in Audacity or not, or record it from the audio so that you can. Maybe in the future only un-licensed computers will be able to play these unprotected files and licensed computers won't, after all Microsoft themselves have stated that they don't include divx in their MEdia Center extender softwares to prevent piracy. </p><p></p><p>here's another link about trusted computing (aka next wave of DRM) <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq-1.0.html" target="_blank">http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq-1.0.html</a></p><p></p><p>You can also go with the FSF view that DRM (regardless of protecting copyright, think documents) is inherently evil, just think what people would think of Nixon and Vietman, and what would have happened back then, if those documents had been drm'd.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cowpie, post: 101193, member: 25477"] Well it's affecting hardware as you can read in the cost analysis of vista drm, see the problems with graphics cards. That means less or no interoperability with Linux, yet again lock-in, and much less control for the user to do what they want with hardware they paid money for. If it's not digitally signed it will be play. But it won't be up to the control of the user who BUYS their music, it's all in the hands of industry who dictate whether you can open up your .drm-protected file in Audacity or not, or record it from the audio so that you can. Maybe in the future only un-licensed computers will be able to play these unprotected files and licensed computers won't, after all Microsoft themselves have stated that they don't include divx in their MEdia Center extender softwares to prevent piracy. here's another link about trusted computing (aka next wave of DRM) [url]http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq-1.0.html[/url] You can also go with the FSF view that DRM (regardless of protecting copyright, think documents) is inherently evil, just think what people would think of Nixon and Vietman, and what would have happened back then, if those documents had been drm'd. [/QUOTE]
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