An interesting view with respect to the VISTA's content protection scheme.
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
Executive Summary
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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.
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