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Longhorn to Require Monitor-Based DRM, oh Linux, where art thee?

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Ducc

Posted: Jul 15 2005, 11:01 AM

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http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000143050582/

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So what will happen when you try to play premium content on your incompatible monitor? If you’re “lucky”, the content will go through a resolution constrictor. The purpose of this constrictor is to down-sample high-resolution content to below a certain number of pixels. The newly down-sampled content is then blown back up to match the resolution of your monitor. This is much like when you shrink a JPEG and then zoom into it. Much of the clarity is lost. The result is a picture far fuzzier than it need be.

This is another reason Linux and Open Source will rule.

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Posted: Jul 15 2005, 11:44 AM

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QUOTE (Ducc @ Jul 15 2005, 10:01 AM)

This is another reason Linux and Open Source will rule.

And another aspect of M$ that's pushing me away.

Why people keep letting M$ walk all over them is beyond me.

The next thing will probably be a black box that takes dollar bills. In order for you to use your o/s, you have to stick money in it. The box gets exchanged every month, and your computer won't run without it.

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Posted: Jul 15 2005, 03:08 PM

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I posted this on my blog:

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I suspect the copyright issues with digital media will throw open source into the mainstream. Why? Because companies are starting to include DRM and CSS and all the other copyright protection crap into their software, and there's a good chance it will break valid use. Similar open source software wouldn't do that, so there may come a time where if you really want to USE your computer without hassle, you'll use Linux.

It really bugs me that the industry didn't learn the lesson I wanted them to learn about MP3's. I wanted them to say "hey, we can make money by changing our business model a little" instead of "oh noes! Our business model is in jeopardy! Hire more lawyers!" It could have gone either way, and it went the wrong way.

Now all the companies that interact with digital media are all scared of being sued, and break their own product just to appease an industry that refuses to change with the times.

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Posted: Jul 15 2005, 05:44 PM

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Microsoft actually wants this. They want the OS moved to a subscription model.

But it gets worse. Longhorn requires a 64MB Video Card that supports PS 2.0. This means GF4 cards will not work on it either. And you wonder why I was making a big deal about BF2.

Digital copyright protection that uses forced methods will lose long term. They just have not realized it yet. You cannot exclude Analog displays for at least ten more years, too many people have them and will continue to.