On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:05:34 +0000, Mark Kent wrote:
> begin oe_protect.scr
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Vista copy protection is defended
>>
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>>| In a report looking at the impact Vista would have on video and
>>| audio playback, he described Vista's Content Protection specification
>>| as "the longest suicide note in history".
>>|
>>| He said Vista was "broken by design" and intentionally crippled the
>>| way it displayed video.
>>|
>>| "The sheer obnoxiousness of Vista's content protection may end up
>>| being the biggest incentive to piracy yet created," he wrote.
>> `----
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>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6286245.stm
>>
>> Perhaps [H]omer's open letter to the BBC (viewed over a thousand times and
>> reached the FSF) played a role and had a real impact.
>
> I'm quite sure all of these things have an impact. The BBC is very
> sensitive to information bouncing around the media, because it is so
> much of it, and it has to defend its licence fee to an all-too-skeptical
> public.
They certainly are responsive!
Especially when their copyrighted images are being used without permission
by some people.
Right Roy Schestowitz!!
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