DRM & Vista...

Qua si parla del sistema DRM di Windows Vista.

La mia idea?? Invece di rompere i cosidetti a noi utenti e spendere milioni di dollari/euro per non farci vedere l'ultimo film di Vanzina perchè non dimezzare i prezzi dei biglietti del cinema??

Io andavo al cinema 2/3 volte al mese quando i prezzi erano avvicinabili.. con i prezzi assurdi di oggi semplicemente non ci vado più!! E credo di non essere il solo! Lo stesso vale per la musica... voi che ne pensate???

Visto che il pezzo è lungo cito qualche pezzetto:

Vista's content protection mechanism only allows protected content to be sent

over interfaces that also have content-protection facilities built in.

...

In other words if you've sunk a pile of money

into a high-end audio setup fed from an S/PDIF digital output, you won't be

able to use it with protected content.  Similarly, component (YPbPr) video

will be disabled by Vista's content protection, so the same applies to a high-

end video setup fed from component video.

...

So the instant any audio derived from premium content

appears on your system, signal degradation and disabling of outputs will

occur.  What makes this particularly entertaining is the fact that the

downgrading/disabling is dynamic, so if the premium-content signal is

intermittent or varies (for example music that fades out), various outputs and

output quality will fade in and out, or turn on and off, in sync.

e ancora:

  "Since [encryption] uses CPU cycles, an OEM may have to bump the speed grade

  on the CPU to maintain equivalent multimedia performance.  This cost is

  passed on to purchasers of multimedia PCs" -- ATI.

Ciao!

Bigo

[ http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt ]