2007/09/18 Blogger Objects To Accusations Surrounding Vista DRM


Wow here is a story slashdot.org:

IT: Blogger Objects To Accusations Surrounding Vista DRM

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday September 18, @07:05AM
from the two-sides-to-that-coin dept.


Technical Writing Geek writes “Self-described ‘professional paranoid’ Peter Gutmann of the University of Auckland has become the most widely quoted source of information on DRM and content protection in Windows Vista. The trouble is, according to ZDNet Blogger Ed Bott, Gutmann’s work is riddled with factual errors, distortions, contradictions, and outright untruths. From the lengthy piece: ‘As Gutmann would know if he actually understood how HD hardware works, Vista will indeed display HD content on this monitor over the D-Sub and component video outputs, which are capable of outputting 1080p and 1080i signals, respectively. In the future, a content provider might choose to constrict the output to these devices, but that decision would apply only to a specific piece of media, and it would have to be disclosed on the package, giving the buyer the opportunity to choose not to purchase it.’”

Wow.

 


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