Richard Lockwood wrote: > Naaah - everyone's just drawing breath for the next round of > opinionated shouting about DRM, open source, free beer or whatever... > > ;-) > > Cheers, > > Rich.
This might help: "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection" Or "How Microsoft destroyed the Mulitmedia PC" Executive Executive Summary The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history Executive Summary Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”, typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost. These issues affect not only users of Vista but the entire PC industry, since the effects of the protection measures extend to cover all hardware and software that will ever come into contact with Vista, even if it's not used directly with Vista (for example hardware in a Macintosh computer or on a Linux server). This document analyses the cost involved in Vista's content protection, and the collateral damage that this incurs throughout the computer industry. It's quite a long piece and gets quite technical - I'm not in a position to critique it but the references and arguments appear sound. http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html David - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
