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	<title>The Ironism &#187; microsoft</title>
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	<description>of Lars J. Nilsson</description>
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		<title>Micro$oft and the Vote; Pt III</title>
		<link>http://www.larsan.net/2007/09/microoft-and-the-vote-pt-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beast lost the international vote. Good]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Beast lost the international vote. Good.</p>
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		<title>Micro$oft and the DRM wet dream</title>
		<link>http://www.larsan.net/2007/01/microoft-and-the-drm-weat-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all have heard about Vista and its DRM features right? RIGHT? Erhm&#8230; No, at least I hadn&#8217;t really thought much about it. But&#8230; Things may get interesting soon if we don&#8217;t do something very drastic.Some points to consider for you: High Definition (HD) content will be artificially downgraded (think &#8220;fuzzy&#8221;) with a significant loss ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We all have heard about Vista and its DRM features right? RIGHT? Erhm&#8230; No, at least I hadn&#8217;t really thought much about it. But&#8230; Things may get interesting soon if we don&#8217;t do something very drastic.Some points to consider for you:
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<li>High Definition (HD) content will be artificially downgraded (think &#8220;fuzzy&#8221;) with a significant loss of quality. At all times.</li>
<li>Device drivers must adhere to a set of &#8220;hardware rubustness rules&#8221;. Which are dictade by&#8230; Hollywood.</li>
<li>Closed source business is here again.</li>
<li>Oh yes, and you will need new hardware to play HD content. Completely new and dictade my Micro$oft itself, otherwise it will not play at all.</li>
<li>Micro$soft has the right to disable any of your hardware at any time.</li>
<li>And of course you can&#8217;t just change any significant hardware (what ever that means) in your computer. It will lock down. Anti-piracy you see. Because we know all home system builders are all pirates. Yes! Mark my word!</li>
<li>There&#8217;s a good chance your hardware will become <strong>less</strong> stable.</li>
<li>Obviously there&#8217;s going to be AES encryption all over the place, which will eat CPU and GPU cycles for you.</li>
<li>Do you like sotware encodings (like Ogg)? Kiss them godbye.</li>
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<p>Read <a href="http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/%7Epgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt">this</a> for the entire story.</p>
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