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<blockquote data-quote="Psionicist" data-source="post: 2604755" data-attributes="member: 1874"><p>What's your point? I don't mind CSS-like copy protection. The studios can do whatever they want with their discs and readers. This doesn't mean it is okay for companies like Microsoft to build in DRM in kernel mode that affects the whole computer (a computer is not an entertainment system!). This is not only about stopping music and DVD piracy, it's also about locking out competition. And Microsoft are very good at this. If you read the article above you can see Microsoft are locking out programmers and computer users from the video and audio input/output. No more open formats, no other video/music players than Microsofts own...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In your country perhaps. In the rest of the world, you can do whatever you want with a bought CD/DVD/disc in order to play it's contents. Heck, even the new anti piracy laws in many european countries _especially_ allow the circumvention of copy protection if it's necessary to use the product (at all). I can legally use my bought movie disc on whatever platform I want, thank you very much.</p><p></p><p>I regret every single second of my life I've wasted using Microsoft products. They stand for everything wrong in the computer industry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Psionicist, post: 2604755, member: 1874"] What's your point? I don't mind CSS-like copy protection. The studios can do whatever they want with their discs and readers. This doesn't mean it is okay for companies like Microsoft to build in DRM in kernel mode that affects the whole computer (a computer is not an entertainment system!). This is not only about stopping music and DVD piracy, it's also about locking out competition. And Microsoft are very good at this. If you read the article above you can see Microsoft are locking out programmers and computer users from the video and audio input/output. No more open formats, no other video/music players than Microsofts own... In your country perhaps. In the rest of the world, you can do whatever you want with a bought CD/DVD/disc in order to play it's contents. Heck, even the new anti piracy laws in many european countries _especially_ allow the circumvention of copy protection if it's necessary to use the product (at all). I can legally use my bought movie disc on whatever platform I want, thank you very much. I regret every single second of my life I've wasted using Microsoft products. They stand for everything wrong in the computer industry. [/QUOTE]
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