Vista premium content protection - yikes!
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It's not going to affect me either. I am playing DVDs on DVD-players only. I was just trying to point out that it's not a bug it's a feature forced to be implemented.:)
The article linked in the original post is all about how it's going to affect you, even if you don't watch "premium" content on your computer.
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Igor Vigdorchik wrote:
high-definition optical discs would be entirely off-limits on Windows computers
So?
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Igor Vigdorchik wrote: high-definition optical discs would be entirely off-limits on Windows computers So?
I agree. It would be nice to be able to turn the "feature" off completely by simply disabling all "premium" content on the machine in the system policies, at least.
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Sheesh, are we still in the 80's? What's with the ASCII-formatted plain text document? :rolleyes: I gave the article a cursory read through as best as I could (plaintext hurts my eyes, and content protection is not my speciality), but couldn't see what was so unique to Vista about it? Surely the same pros and cons exist with the newer DVD players and TVs with the content protection built in? They won't let you play protected content over an unsecure connection either -- effectively disabling those outputs automatically when protected content is played and reducing quality when targeting a non-compliant device. Ultimately the market will decide whether it takes off or is destined to die as another failed attempt at content protection (like every other attempt). I expect any unintentional problems will be resolved - we have had this level of fearmongering in the past and it proved anything but significant with hindsight. I for one will not be purchasing any protected content, and by law publishers will be required to label content as protected in the UK, and probably Europe. I am not convinced it will be entirely legal, especially if there turn out to be side-effects. Who knows, give it a few years and some big class action suits and the media giants might get the message. I wouldn't hold your breath though. :(
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I'm so gangsta I eat cereal without the milkDavid Wulff wrote:
Who knows, give it a few years and some big class action suits and the media giants might get the message.
That's great, unless you're the victim in the wrongful death suit. (Specifically referring to the section of the article that discusses potential impact on medical imaging systems.)
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As mentioned, it's not just Vista but TVs and Home Cinema components as well. Vista should be the least of your worries - the upgrade costs for Windows don't start at $5,000 after rebates... You'd be far better off simply not buying any protected content.
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I'm so gangsta I eat cereal without the milkDavid Wulff wrote:
You'd be far better off simply not buying any protected content.
I intend not to.
David Wulff wrote:
t's not just Vista but TVs and Home Cinema components as well.
Yeah, but when was the last time you cracked your DVD player open and installed a new video card? When was the last time your TV suddenly quit working properly at all because somebody on the other side of the world found a way to use that model to bypass somebody's copy protection scheme?
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This is a long but good read on the implications: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt[^] No I don't have a beef against Vista, as I said before I write software for whatever my users are using it's all the same to me, however I keep running across so many negative items about Vista every day on the net, items that are definitely more than FUD.
With all these draconian measures to prevent piracy, how long will it be before weaknesses in the system allow it to be bypassed? The means to access the content exists within the PC after all. It only requires a few crackers to make the contents available. After this has occurred, don't all these measures collectively turn into a very expensive and inconvenient white elephant, that everyone is saddled with for a considerable length of time?
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David Wulff wrote:
You'd be far better off simply not buying any protected content.
Indeed.
David Wulff wrote:
As mentioned, it's not just Vista but TVs and Home Cinema components as well. Vista should be the least of your worries - the upgrade costs for Windows don't start at $5,000 after rebates...
Computers are far more important to me than an silly TV.
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Captain See Sharp David Wulff wrote: You'd be far better off simply not buying any protected content. Indeed.
You may do that. I may do that. The average sheeple may say he's going to do that, but the moment the MPAA decides to stop issuing $20dvds in favor of $30bluerays they'll start spending like there's no tomorrow.
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Me and a buddy at work have a bet going that we made 6 months ago. I said that Linux will become main stream (for end users) in 3 years and he said 6 years. I think that vista might just tilt the odds farther in my favor. :-D Micro$oft is going to be the extinction of PC gaming ... well you will probably still have those slow Micro$oft games. eg. Incredible creatures ... great concept - poor game engine. And one of the biggest shame is that i can already tell you how they are going to bypass all of this new "features" (*ahem bugs *cough). Simple. PC > TV > DVD recorder? (Disclaimer : I could be wrong).
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Micro$oft is going to be the extinction of PC gaming ... well you will probably still have those slow Micro$oft games. eg. Incredible creatures ... great concept - poor game engine.
Yeah, if they kill PC gaming, they can try and sell you an Xbox 360!!!:laugh::laugh::laugh:
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David Wulff wrote:
You'd be far better off simply not buying any protected content.
I intend not to.
David Wulff wrote:
t's not just Vista but TVs and Home Cinema components as well.
Yeah, but when was the last time you cracked your DVD player open and installed a new video card? When was the last time your TV suddenly quit working properly at all because somebody on the other side of the world found a way to use that model to bypass somebody's copy protection scheme?
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Surely that agrees with what I've said, so why the question marks? :confused:
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This is a long but good read on the implications: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt[^] No I don't have a beef against Vista, as I said before I write software for whatever my users are using it's all the same to me, however I keep running across so many negative items about Vista every day on the net, items that are definitely more than FUD.
The problem with all this hype about Vista is that it is driven by hatred. There are so few objective opinions about Vista and Microsoft it's rediculous. This initiative is not about Vista. Its that simple. Yet the original poster and the writer of the article would have you believe its the Microsoft Devil at work. I saw the same thing on CNN the other day. The headline says "First Vista Security Flaw Exposed". The article was all about how if a hacker was actually sitting at your computer they could expose a flaw in the operating system. A rediculous story with a misleading headline. The fact is that Microsoft is the only company in the world that has successfully built software on this scale. Talk to the accounting, finance, and business analysts of the past 15 years. They will tell you how much better they have been able to collaborate, analyze, organize there business information for a relatively cheap price on the windows operating system. Remember when the productivity of the US worker pratically doubled in the 90's. Backend databases had a lot to do with that but the information was delivered to the business users hands to analyze in an Office/Windows environment. Microsoft will never be open source, free of bugs, free of charge, or far from contreversy. Atleast respect thier acomplishments enough to be filter your comments for objectivity and context. Keep one thing in mind when wishing/predicting the demise of Microsoft and its products. "Geeks","Artists" and their bosses are the only ones calling for an alternate OS. The people that drive earnings and make strategic decisions want something easy to use and designed with them in mind. That has been XP and will be Vista.
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The problem with all this hype about Vista is that it is driven by hatred. There are so few objective opinions about Vista and Microsoft it's rediculous. This initiative is not about Vista. Its that simple. Yet the original poster and the writer of the article would have you believe its the Microsoft Devil at work. I saw the same thing on CNN the other day. The headline says "First Vista Security Flaw Exposed". The article was all about how if a hacker was actually sitting at your computer they could expose a flaw in the operating system. A rediculous story with a misleading headline. The fact is that Microsoft is the only company in the world that has successfully built software on this scale. Talk to the accounting, finance, and business analysts of the past 15 years. They will tell you how much better they have been able to collaborate, analyze, organize there business information for a relatively cheap price on the windows operating system. Remember when the productivity of the US worker pratically doubled in the 90's. Backend databases had a lot to do with that but the information was delivered to the business users hands to analyze in an Office/Windows environment. Microsoft will never be open source, free of bugs, free of charge, or far from contreversy. Atleast respect thier acomplishments enough to be filter your comments for objectivity and context. Keep one thing in mind when wishing/predicting the demise of Microsoft and its products. "Geeks","Artists" and their bosses are the only ones calling for an alternate OS. The people that drive earnings and make strategic decisions want something easy to use and designed with them in mind. That has been XP and will be Vista.
cspikes wrote:
Yet the original poster and the writer of the article would have you believe its the Microsoft Devil at work.
You must be new around here ;) - you could not be more wrong, I've always been pretty clear about my thoughts on Vista and they are not anti-Microsoft in any way. Sure microsoft has done some great things, Vista is not one of them.
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cspikes wrote:
Yet the original poster and the writer of the article would have you believe its the Microsoft Devil at work.
You must be new around here ;) - you could not be more wrong, I've always been pretty clear about my thoughts on Vista and they are not anti-Microsoft in any way. Sure microsoft has done some great things, Vista is not one of them.
John Cardinal wrote:
You must be new around here
Your right and I love this site.
John Cardinal wrote:
Sure microsoft has done some great things
The most empowering company in the last half century easy.
John Cardinal wrote:
I've always been pretty clear about my thoughts on Vista and they are not anti-Microsoft in any way
I'm sure your right. My comments were probably ill placed. I just never see anybody speaking positive about the things they are doing.
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John Cardinal wrote:
You must be new around here
Your right and I love this site.
John Cardinal wrote:
Sure microsoft has done some great things
The most empowering company in the last half century easy.
John Cardinal wrote:
I've always been pretty clear about my thoughts on Vista and they are not anti-Microsoft in any way
I'm sure your right. My comments were probably ill placed. I just never see anybody speaking positive about the things they are doing.
From my point of view .net has been the best thing they've done in a while, but aside from that they've lost their way to a great extent. If you read some of the blogs from Microsoft insiders about the Vista development process it's not pretty from strictly a software engineers point of view. They might benefit tremendously from splitting up their os and infrastructure divisions from their consumer application divisions, but that's just idle speculation. They just don't feel to me anymore like the cutting edge "developers" company they use to be, more like a risk averse overly large organisation unwilling to truly innovate or change.
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This is a long but good read on the implications: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt[^] No I don't have a beef against Vista, as I said before I write software for whatever my users are using it's all the same to me, however I keep running across so many negative items about Vista every day on the net, items that are definitely more than FUD.
biggest load of BS i've ever read. I think it's high time microshaft was dead and buried. Don't get me wrong, they have some decent products, and just because i can't think of any in order to liste them, it doesn't mean they don't exist.
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Igor Vigdorchik wrote:
high-definition optical discs would be entirely off-limits on Windows computers
So?
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Igor Vigdorchik wrote: high-definition optical discs would be entirely off-limits on Windows computers So?
exactly, who cares? if you are going to have an entertainment system with a PC as it's core then you use MCE. Anyone who doesn't is a cheap skate and deserves to have things like this happen to them. This does NOT mean i am advocating what microshaft is doing, or any of the other companies involved either in the genesis of the problem, or the proponents of it. Some people really can't afford the bells and whistles and they will suffer immensely.
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As mentioned, it's not just Vista but TVs and Home Cinema components as well. Vista should be the least of your worries - the upgrade costs for Windows don't start at $5,000 after rebates... You'd be far better off simply not buying any protected content.
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I'm so gangsta I eat cereal without the milkI personally will not be upgrading to Vista EVER! unless i am forced to in a couple of years.
Life is nothing but an individuals perception of an immortals dream. - ME
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From my point of view .net has been the best thing they've done in a while, but aside from that they've lost their way to a great extent. If you read some of the blogs from Microsoft insiders about the Vista development process it's not pretty from strictly a software engineers point of view. They might benefit tremendously from splitting up their os and infrastructure divisions from their consumer application divisions, but that's just idle speculation. They just don't feel to me anymore like the cutting edge "developers" company they use to be, more like a risk averse overly large organisation unwilling to truly innovate or change.
John Cardinal wrote:
From my point of view .net has been the best thing they've done in a while, but aside from that they've lost their way to a great extent. If you read some of the blogs from Microsoft insiders about the Vista development process it's not pretty from strictly a software engineers point of view. They might benefit tremendously from splitting up their os and infrastructure divisions from their consumer application divisions, but that's just idle speculation. They just don't feel to me anymore like the cutting edge "developers" company they use to be, more like a risk averse overly large organisation unwilling to truly innovate or change.
What John said. I thought of some microshaft products that i consider decent. The .NET achitecture 2.0 is definitely the latest but not the greatest. DirectX is another good one, i'm still hanging out for version 10. Visual Studio is an excellent one, I am not a big fan of Visual Studio .NET because i still can't get my head around some of the intracacies of VB.NET. i develop in VB6 and C++. Sure Windows has been great for the productivity of the average user, but it leaves much to be desired for the savvy users.
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This is a long but good read on the implications: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt[^] No I don't have a beef against Vista, as I said before I write software for whatever my users are using it's all the same to me, however I keep running across so many negative items about Vista every day on the net, items that are definitely more than FUD.
This is such a joke. I'm not even close to a hacker and it took me all of 3 minutes to come up with a way to bypass this nonsense. 1) Buy a "compliant" LCD display 2) open it up 3) disconnect the feed to the LCD 4) connect the feed to another video processor (like an LCD diagnostic device) 5) route the output of that processor into a capture device Voila, you've just bypassed everything. Seriously, this almost ranks up there with Sony's "Magic Marker" copy protection scheme. -- Dj
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Igor Vigdorchik wrote:
high-definition optical discs would be entirely off-limits on Windows computers
So?
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Linkify!|Fold With Us!peterchen wrote:
Igor Vigdorchik wrote: high-definition optical discs would be entirely off-limits on Windows computers So?
I concur. What would be so bad about that? I don't need it, and I'm not willing to suffer to get it. Let bad formats die the death they deserve. I'll keep watching DVDs until something reasonable comes along.
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With all these draconian measures to prevent piracy, how long will it be before weaknesses in the system allow it to be bypassed? The means to access the content exists within the PC after all. It only requires a few crackers to make the contents available. After this has occurred, don't all these measures collectively turn into a very expensive and inconvenient white elephant, that everyone is saddled with for a considerable length of time?
The way it's gone has made people determined to break it.
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This is such a joke. I'm not even close to a hacker and it took me all of 3 minutes to come up with a way to bypass this nonsense. 1) Buy a "compliant" LCD display 2) open it up 3) disconnect the feed to the LCD 4) connect the feed to another video processor (like an LCD diagnostic device) 5) route the output of that processor into a capture device Voila, you've just bypassed everything. Seriously, this almost ranks up there with Sony's "Magic Marker" copy protection scheme. -- Dj
I think you miss the general point... the issue is not the tech savvy individual getting around the content protection, it's the general user. This is why Napster resulted in the bleeding for the music industry - the file sharing technology just made it too easy. So, now, we have the RIAA and everyone else way, way overreacting to the issue. Rather than asking themselves how to make the system reasonably secure and yet user friendly, we have all this nonsense going on. And MS, the hardware makers, the content providers (gag, I hate that phrase) are now burying their disclaimers in all the mumbo jumbo of the licensing agreements that no one ever reads. It's going to backfire in a major way and result in yet more bad legislation - DMCA. A good example is Sony adding the root kit to their music CDs (someone had to be out of their frigging mind). One thing we have a lot of in the US are lawyers, and this is going to turn into a free for all....
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