[geeks] Vista cost

[Frank Van Damme]

On 1/28/07, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
>
> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html#response
>
> The quotes were included at the bottom for amusement, but really, they
> aren't funny.
>
> People with nearly brand new machines are finding that encrypted HDMI
> either isn't supported or has very high resource costs even on new
> machines.  Evidently this stuff is already being enforced, despite
> rumors that it would be years before we saw DRM becoming serious.
>
> In particular note the people with LCD displays that find they cannot
> play high-def movies because the protection system won't allow it, due
> to the LCD not being encryption compliant. The funny thing is the guy is
> talking about a movie that came with his system specifically to show off
> it capability.
>
> Also note that nothing is free: if your devices are encryption
> compliant, CPU usage goes up because obviously it takes processing power
> to send encrypted signals.
>
> Even if the performance was acceptable, who wants DRM running all the
> time, and causing potential data loss in the future?
>
> My question about any protection system is this:
>
> If I buy this and your company goes out of business in five years, how
> will I use it ten years from now? How will I authenticate when the
> authentication servers are gone, or I'm not on the network?
>
> Even if all of this stuff worked perfectly, it is still unacceptable.
>
> Sigh...
>

Who would want DRM... AT ALL??


-- 
Frank Van Damme

"All  PCs are compatible. But some of them are more compatible than others."
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