EFF's Cohn: Industry souring on DRM?

[unixronin]

"I think we're seeing a growing consensus that DRM isn't working," Cohn said. "I think DRM was a bad idea that had a heyday but that it will be fading away soon. The (entertainment companies) are learning that DRM is an anticompetitive tool that ultimately hurts their business."

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[ithildae.livejournal.com]

This seems relevant. It is about the costs imposed by Vista's content protection measures. It also shows why Micro$oft will own the content providers by the time this is all over.

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt (http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt)

Some attitude, but it seems to be straightforward enough.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Funny you should mention that ... you're the second person to do so (in two completely unrelated fora) today.

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

So, what did you think about it?

If true, it will functionally disable running Vista on a linux box and linux on a Vista box. Micro$oft will be back to "per processor" licensing, plus complete monopoly lock down.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I think it'll functionally disable a lot more than that....