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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Applies for "New World Order"-esque Patent

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Microsoft proposes gadget feature disabling tech

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| Microsoft has made itself mediator and hopes to patent technology to ensure 
| that if you shouldn’t be using a gadget in a certain place – then you 
| physically can’t.  
| 
| Microsoft’s brainwave is called Device Manners Policy (DMP) and it could 
| ensure that if a sign says “No photography allowe”, then your camera or your 
| phone's camera won’t work. DMP could also be used to block phones from 
| receiving incoming calls during a meeting.   
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/06/microsoft_dmp_patent_application/

Reverse INNOVA~1, just like Vista where disablement is a feature. Part of this:

ACTA and the Threat to Credible Global Governance

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| I’ve recently heard through a grapevine that ACTA negotiants have reportedly 
| signed non-disclosure agreements as a condition of their participation in 
| this week’s secret closed-door meeting in Geneva.  
| 
| This is an amazing and frightening step backwards in the history of global 
| governance. It also epitomizes the ACTA negotiants’ dismissive attitude 
| towards the importance of credible, transparent trade policy-making in the 
| current global environment.   
| 
| Anyone who would seek to radically transform the world’s trade in intangible 
| assets without the participation of most of the world’s governments has 
| learned little from the Asian Financial Crisis, the Iraq War, or the ongoing 
| real estate and credit catastrophe.   
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http://fringethoughts.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/acta-and-the-threat-to-credible-global-governance/


Recent:

Embattled ACTA Negotiations Next Week In Geneva; US Sees Signing This Year

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| Criticism from NGOs
|
| Canadian law expert David Fewer, staff counsel at the University of Ottawa’s
| Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, told the Ottawa Citizen
| that the discussion paper was very close to a potential Christmas wish-list
| by Hollywood companies.
|
| Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), in an earlier statement filed to USTR,
| warned against a lack in differentiation and clearness of core terms, like
| counterfeiting, infringement or piracy. “Is Microsoft a “pirate” for
| insisting on the right to continue to infringe the z4 patents in order to use
| an infringing DRM technology to protect Microsoft software itself from
| infringement by unauthorised uses?” KEI asked in its statement.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1071


Related:

The British Library - "The world's knowledge" DRM'd and for a price

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| DRM is part of the plan, and I encourage you to read the entire Microsoft
| document. It would make my grandmother roll over in her grave. Some of the
| librarians at the British Library are deeply troubled too about what DRM is
| doing to libraries. How will we access the materials if the DRM company goes
| out of business someday?
|
| If they duplicate what they have done at the British Library, I think it's
| fair to say that it is the death of public libraries as we have known them,
| and the world's knowledge will be available only DRM'd and for a price.
|
| P.S. DRM doesn't work.
| It won't block any serious criminals.
| All it does is annoy and degrade the honest
| ... and give monopolies a way to stay that way.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060317044847293


Microsoft: We Like DRM

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| Steve Jobs wants the music business to drop restrictions for digital
| tunes. But Microsoft, which began competing head to head with Apple
| in the digital music business last fall, is happy with the way things
| are, says media exec Robbie Bach.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/08/zune-drm-itunes-tech-media-cx_df_0208bach.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/2lrz3y


Microsoft Tells Apple To Stop Complaining About DRM

http://www.podcastingnews.com/2007/04/13/microsoft-apple-drm/


Golden Rant : Microsoft DRM's gone too far

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| Microsoft appears to have hit the wrong button on its critical
| Windows XP download service late last month, pretty well forcing
| every XP user to upgrade to Windows Media Player (WiMP) 11 if
| they (like me and many others) have the automatic download/install
| option enabled for critical updates.
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http://securityblog.itproportal.com/?p=712


The Longest Suicide Note in History

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| Gutmann: The genie's out of the bottle before the operating system has even
| been released! But that doesn't mean Vista users in particular - and
| the computer community at large - won't end up paying for Microsoft's
| DRM folly. At the risk of repeating myself repeating myself, yet
| another reason to move to Linux.
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http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2007/01/the_longest_suicide_note_in_hi.html


Avoid the Vista badge, it means DRM inside

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| The root of this crappy DRM infection is Microsoft. It is the driving
| force here. This has nothing to do with protecting content, as we
| keep pointing out, there has never been a single thing that has had
| a DRM infection applied that didn't end up cracked on the net in
| hours. DRM is about walled gardens and control.
|
| He who controls the DRM infection controls the market. DRM is
| about preventing you from doing anything with the devices
| without paying the gatekeeper a fee. This is what MS wants,
| nothing less than a slice of everything watched, listened to
| or discussed from now on. DRM prevents others from playing
| there, thanks to the DMCA and other anti-consumer laws.
|
| Make no mistake, MS is pushing the DRM malware as hard as
| it can so it can rake in money hand over fist with no
| competition. It is really good at lock-in, in fact, the firm
| based its entire business model on harming the user so they
| have to comply and spend more.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38926


DRM in Windows Vista

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| Windows Vista includes an array of "features" that you don't want.
| These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure.
| They'll make your computer less stable and run slower. They will
| cause technical support problems. They may even require you to
| upgrade some of your peripheral hardware and existing software.
| And these features won't do anything useful. In fact, they're
| working against you. They're digital rights management (DRM)
| features built into Vista at the behest of the entertainment
| industry.
|
| And you don't get to refuse them.
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/drm_in_windows.html


Plug a Windows XP Copy Protection Hole

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| Microsoft reports "limited" attacks on Windows XP systems via an unexpected
| path exploiting a security hole in a copy protection program that comes with
| XP. (Windows Vista is not at risk.)  
|
| The program that attackers are leveraging is Macrovision's SafeDisc,
| optical-disc copy prevention software for Windows applications and games. The
| flaw is located in a system driver file called secdrv.sys. Microsoft
| immediately issued a Security Advisory.  
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140862/article.html


HD Monitor Causes DRM Issues with Netflix

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| When I called them they confirmed my worst fears. In order to access the
| Watch Now service, I had to give Microsoft's DRM sniffing program access to
| all of the files on my hard drive. If the software found any non-Netflix
| video files, it would revoke my rights to the content and invalidate the DRM.    
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/03/2339248&from=rss


Macrovision update plugs zero-day DRM exploit

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| The flaw, though Symantec wasn't specific on this, involves a privilege
| elevation bug in Macrovision secdrv.sys driver that comes bundled with
| Windows XP and 2003 (though not Windows Vista).  
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/06/macrovision_drm_update/


DRM – a big win for Microsoft

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| Recently I came to conclusion that Microsoft is the company, which profits
| most from the Digital Rights Management.
| I don't know the numbers, but I guess that DRM is little or no success for
| the recording industry. To say it stopped pirating films and music would be a  
| joke.
| Microsoft people must have known that the protection would be broken very
| soon. So why they are implementing it after all?
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http://technocrat.net/d/2008/1/2/32809


EFF: Microsoft betrayed MSN Music customers

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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Microsoft has "betrayed" MSN
| Music customers and wants the company to make things right by issuing an
| apology, refunds, and eliminate digital rights management technology from the
| Zune music player.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9931304-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


UPDATE: Microsoft May Slowly Be Fixing Their Broken XBOX DRM

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| A ray of hope from reader James—Microsoft was able to fix his broken XBOX
| Live account. Are they getting their act together? Maybe?
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http://consumerist.com/372215/update-microsoft-may-slowly-be-fixing-their-broken-xbox-drm


Microsoft ready to play with PlayReady

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| Microsoft is proudly showing off its PlayReady technology at MWC, but woe
| betide anyone who describes it as a DRM platform.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/13/playready_drm/


Embarrassed by DRM

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| The point behind all this is, of course, to conceal the very existence of DRM
| from the user..
|
| Ergo, we need to shout about the presence of DRM from the rooftops: the more
| people know about it, the more they will dislike it, as Microsoft well
| understands....
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/02/embarrassed-by-drm.html


Microsoft rebrands PlaysForSure to Certified For Windows Vista, confuses world

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| Microsoft's PlaysForSure DRM just took another step closer to the grave with
| the help of some rebranding.
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/microsoft-rebrands-playsforsure-to-certified-for-windows-vista/


MSN Music Debacle Highlights EULA Dangers

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| MSN Music’s EULA is a case in point. When active, MSN Music's webpage touted
| that customers could “choose their device and know its going to work”.
|
| But when customers went to purchase songs, they were shown legalese that
| stated the download service and the content provided were sold without
| warrantee. In other words, Microsoft doesn't promise you that the service or
| the music will work, or that you will always have access to music you bought.
| The flashy advertising promised your music, your way, but the fine print
| said, our way or the highway.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/05/msn-music-debacle-highlights-eula-dangers
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