____/ Mark Kent on Sunday 30 September 2007 19:45 : \____
> nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On Sep 30, 12:29 am, Ramon F Herrera <ra...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> DRM troubles drive ex-Microsoft employee to Linux
>>>
>>> A security expert who once worked for Microsoft has said he may dump
>>> the company's Windows Media Center in favor of Ubuntu-affiliated
>>> LinuxMCE after struggling with the software giant's digital-rights
>>> management software.
>>>
>>> Jesper Johansson--a former senior program manager for security policy
>>> at Microsoft who moved to Amazon in September last year--wrote in his
>>> blog on Monday that he may drop Windows Media Center for LinuxMCE, a
>>> free open-source add-on to the Kubuntu desktop operating system,
>>> because problems caused by Microsoft's digital-rights management (DRM)
>>> software have proven so difficult to fix.
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>
http://www.news.com/DRM-troubles-drive-ex-Microsoft-employee-to-Linux...http://tinyurl.com/2clbh2
>>>
>>> -RFH
>>
>><Quote>
>> "Upon inspecting the problem I found that the video would turn on, the
>> screen would flicker for a second each of black and the video a few
>> times, and then the Blue Screen of DRM came up. It also wouldn't play
>> any premium channels," he wrote.
>>
>> Johansson said the recommended work-around involved several convoluted
>> steps, including installing Windows Media Player 10, which crashed,
>> and then being advised to troubleshoot the problem with Windows
>> SharePoint Services. A subsequent Microsoft DRM update then caused the
>> Internet Explorer browser to crash.
>></Quote>
>>
>> And DFS likes to talk about "Linux crapware"???
>>
>> DRM is a plague. My wife likes Italian cooking shows, so she ordered
>> some DVDs from RAI (Italian tv network). Unfortunately, they come
>> with European region coding. She was considering getting two DVD
>> players, one for US region, one for European. So I tried it out on my
>> Ubuntu Linux box. It's a pretty old machine and doesn't have advanced
>> video hardware, so I was worried it wouldn't work well. And I wasn't
>> sure how it would handle region coding. Guess what? It *completely
>> ignores* region coding, and the display is great!
>>
>
> I don't buy any video players until I've determined that the region
> coding can be defeated permanently. I travel around the world a lot,
> and like to buy things where and when I want to, not when some suited
> character in a high-rise office decides I should.
>
> I'll be in Canada over christmas again with the kids, and I'm quite sure
> that they'll be buying whatever DVDs they want to.
>
Here is the original post, which I found and read yesterday:
Blue Screen of DRM Death; or The Death Of Windows Media Center
http://msinfluentials.com/blogs/jesper/archive/2007/09/24/blue-screen-of-drm-death-or-the-death-of-windows-media-center.aspx
See what he says about DRM zeal.
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