InformationWeek: How Vista Lets Microsoft Lock Users In
Dec 07, 2006, 16:45 (10 Talkback[s])
"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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