DeathStar1
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http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut00...vista_cost.txt
I've been reading this and I'm still only a third of the way through it....but what I have read frightens me.
Then I hear of ATI's new Cable Card based TV Tuner. I was already to buy Vista AND the Tuner, but after hearing that it is loaded with DRM, and all the restrictions on the ATI based device, I finally said to hell with it.
Apparently, in the future, DRM will be laced on the Motherboard BIOS, in hard drives, chips, and graphics cards, hampering system performance and disabling features that people like musicians, or Emergency Personal need in day to day operations.
Recorded 150 hours of HD content on your new terrabite hard drive, and it just crashed? Boo for you, all that is gone because you cannot transfer it to a portable media device or HD. Want to watch recorded content on a networked PC? You're also out of luck. PC A with Cablecard cannot watch what PC B with cablecard recorded.
If this is confusing and frustrating to PC enthusiasts, imagine how the general public will feel when they find out they can't burn to DVD, or transfer to an Ipod no more?
So, I propose that everyone here spread the word and say "NO to any version of Vista or Cablecard based tuner".
No matter how much you want to give them your money, we can send a great message to folks by telling them we don't want this restricted crap no more and our digital freedom back. If we can get stores like Circuit City and Best Buy to follow (highly doubtfull, I know, but we can dream), we can make a bigger impact.
What does everyone else think about this DRM junk that's starting to get a bit out of control, when it treats the average user like the pirates they are trying to stop?
I've been reading this and I'm still only a third of the way through it....but what I have read frightens me.
Then I hear of ATI's new Cable Card based TV Tuner. I was already to buy Vista AND the Tuner, but after hearing that it is loaded with DRM, and all the restrictions on the ATI based device, I finally said to hell with it.
Apparently, in the future, DRM will be laced on the Motherboard BIOS, in hard drives, chips, and graphics cards, hampering system performance and disabling features that people like musicians, or Emergency Personal need in day to day operations.
Recorded 150 hours of HD content on your new terrabite hard drive, and it just crashed? Boo for you, all that is gone because you cannot transfer it to a portable media device or HD. Want to watch recorded content on a networked PC? You're also out of luck. PC A with Cablecard cannot watch what PC B with cablecard recorded.
If this is confusing and frustrating to PC enthusiasts, imagine how the general public will feel when they find out they can't burn to DVD, or transfer to an Ipod no more?
So, I propose that everyone here spread the word and say "NO to any version of Vista or Cablecard based tuner".
No matter how much you want to give them your money, we can send a great message to folks by telling them we don't want this restricted crap no more and our digital freedom back. If we can get stores like Circuit City and Best Buy to follow (highly doubtfull, I know, but we can dream), we can make a bigger impact.
What does everyone else think about this DRM junk that's starting to get a bit out of control, when it treats the average user like the pirates they are trying to stop?