Comments on: Windows Vista, Big Brother moves in.

By: Steven Woods

Steven Woods — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 09:47:55 +0000

I don't have any DRM problems anyway, DEViANCE and Raz0r1911 take care of that for me before I download anything :P

By: Steven Woods

Steven Woods — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 09:43:12 +0000

Yes, it rocks if you like to spend all day configuring the damn OS, instead of ~~doing any work~~ being on IRC.

By: Syrus

Syrus — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 09:34:49 +0000

For christ sake. Use linux. Yes it can be frustrating at times, but if you don't, you're gonna end up a sucker. Oh, plus it rocks.

By: Steven Woods

Steven Woods — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 09:34:27 +0000

This comment was posted using a DRM-free copy (yes :P) of Windows 2000 Advanced Server.

TTFN!

By: Marco Raaphorst

Marco Raaphorst — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 08:08:31 +0000

I agree. there goes our freedom... but only if we would upgrade. so no upgrade for me.

By: zimmer

zimmer — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 22:09:07 +0000

Steady Girlfriend?, who’s been talking…..don’t tell Mrs. Zimm

..oh, did you mean Den ?… sorry….(he doesn’t know that much , anyway, spends most of his spare time breaking concrete blocks with his bare hands and learning how to disrupt DDR ram with just the power of thought and a bit of Chi energy….)

By: Mixu Pattelianan

Mixu Pattelianan — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 20:20:47 +0000

How can you know so much about computers AND have a steady girlfriend??!!

By: zimmer

zimmer — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:00:14 +0000

Talking of that, I have a recording of Goodbye, Little Girl, Goodbye (Tenor Solo) on a cylinder, and have no cylinder player to play it on... now there's copy protection for you, by obsolesence...whither DVD formats in say, 50 years, even..

By: Denyerec

Denyerec — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:55:57 +0000

Don't forget Zimm... If they get their way they'll need a DRM sensitive microphone, and a DRM sensitive tape deck. Can you even still buy tapes?

Break out the wax blanks I say, and hand me that hearing trumpet...

By: zimmer

zimmer — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:52:57 +0000

quoting from the article…
The new technology, which could go as far as automatically turning off outputs connected to devices deemed insecure, is aimed at persuading Hollywood studios that the PC can be as safe as any consumer electronics device….

..safe? Like the cassette recorder..or the cd player that can be plugged to a recording device… LOL …
Whatever software can turn off, software can turn back on…
nothing is safe to the determined ‘pirate’ who wants to make money… so the average Joe consumer could be lumbered with content he cannot make portable, or convenient to view/listen to , and the majority can soon get fed up with that and ‘switch off’ entirely and keep listening to the old media.. Only the ‘young’ will be enticed en masse to subscribe to the new formats, which is their main market anyway for making a quick buck.
So as long as they haven’t got free access to the ‘Top (that’s a laugh ) Ten’ then Hollywood will be happy..
Thought…will our ‘young people’ desperate for Pop regress to the days of shoving a microphone against the radio (DAB , even)/TV speaker and recording the latest ditties to tape, before recording them again in real time to the PC ? Are they smart enough to even think of it?…hmmm, where’s my old Philips cassette player? (I last remember seeing it in 1969.)..oh, there’s an old reel to reel in the loft….