Author: Alessandro Damiani
Date: 19:49:21 08/02/02
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On August 02, 2002 at 17:54:54, Dan Andersson wrote: >Digital Rights Management. A technique that may be used for good and evil. Good >thing, untrusted contents and virii might not even run. Bad thing, it might stop >you from running a program or playing a song on your computer. MS is probably >going for the media content first. It can make a boatload of money and goodwill >from the RIAA. I'm seeing it as mostly bad because it might stop you from doing >perfectly legal things just because *someone* doesn't want you to be able to. >The guilty until proven innocent spiel. And it probably won't be cheap to >register as a trusted source. Making major buisness interests unfairly >competitive. But it's anyones choice. Safe in jail or free in the woods. > >MvH Dan Andersson Perhaps my smiley was not big enough: I was joking on Micro$oft. ...and there will always be someone who finds a workaround, like for the "windows phones home" issue. Alessandro
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