An Interesting View of Vista regarding DRM

Roger Oberholtzer roger
Thu Mar 29 01:36:34 PDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 07:12 +0000, Steve Jardine wrote:
> All,
> 
>     Here is an interesting link to a paper called "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection".
> 
>            http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
> 
>     It is a long, but IMNSHO a very interesing read.

I especially enjoyed the statement:

"It's normal to have error codes indicating that there was a disk error
or that a network packet got garbled, but I'm sure Windows Vista must be
the first OS in history to have error codes for things like 'display
quality too high'"


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Roger Oberholtzer

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