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:InformationWeek: How Vista Lets Microsoft Lock Users In
InformationWeek: How Vista Lets Microsoft Lock Users In
Dec 7, 2006, 16 :45 UTC (10 Talkback[s]) (8296 reads)

"What if you could rig it so that competing with your flagship product was against the law? Under 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act, breaking an anti-copying system is illegal, even if you're breaking it for a legal reason. For example, it's against the law to compete head-on with the iPod by making a device that plays Apple's proprietary music, or by making an iPod add-on that plays your own proprietary music. Nice deal for Apple.

"Microsoft gets the same deal, courtesy of something called 'Information Rights Management,' a use-restriction system for Office files, such as Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and Excel spreadsheets..."

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best of luck with archiving and subseque ...   document storage and archiving   
bulletgani
Dec 7, 2006, 21:13:14
 
We need some high visibility debacle inv ...   bring it on   
Ken Yap
Dec 7, 2006, 22:04:42
 
 We need some high visibility debacle in ...   Re: bring it on   
untrusted
Dec 7, 2006, 22:53:52
 
As much as I hate to say it, the more pe ...   Keeps me leary   
Norman Foote
Dec 8, 2006, 03:45:03
 
Very simply, DRM is going to blow up in  ...   Microsoft and DRM   
Ursus Orribilus
Dec 8, 2006, 04:53:04
 
> We need high profile coverage of what  ...   Re: Re: bring it on   
blackhole
Dec 8, 2006, 10:06:36
 
If we're talking about real confiden ...   How hard to get around, anyway?   
Rufus Polson
Dec 8, 2006, 19:01:15
 
> But I can sure as heck put it up on sc ...   RE: How hard to get around, anyway?   
Sepero
Dec 9, 2006, 05:31:03
 
> If we're talking about real confid ...   Re: How hard to get around, anyway?   
blackhole
Dec 9, 2006, 19:20:58
 
Anyone here old enough to remember that  ...   Just Shut Up and Drive   
SteveOC
Dec 11, 2006, 18:15:38
 
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