WIN. VISTA’s Cost Analyse Issue

What’s up Microsoft? Have you really thought this through? Vista’s new content protection policy could cripple end-users experience and hardware/software development.

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The recent report ‘A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection’ by Peter Gutmann analyses the cost involved in Vista’s content protection technology, and the collateral damage that this could have throughout the computer world.

The overall conclusion is that Vista’s content-protection functionality seems very restrained, as it concentrates so much on protecting content without consideration of the enormous effects it could have on future computing – affecting everyone from the home PC user to businesses and governments. All hardware and software producers will now have to rethink their strategies to incorporate the enforced quality limitations. Microsoft appears to be ignoring the fact that the users of their technology could end up becoming involuntary criminals, by being forced to make copyright infringements just to accomplish their daily tasks.

Here are some excerpts from this thoroughly investigated report that is shocking in its implications.

Below you will find current news feeds discussing this issue…

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