DRM = Digital Rights Management, the electronic system of tagging digital data (graphics, music, movies) so they only work on the original purchaser's equipment.
Had MS rebuked the RIAA and all the other musical cronies, they could not only have still made Vista the operating system of choice, but won over a lot of people as they would have sided with the users not the recording industry.
evilref
Oct. 31st, 2007 05:07 pm (UTC)
Vista is going to be the operating system of choice. Have you tried buying a new computer without it? Have you tried to use the latest version of the business software your customers and suppliers use without the latest hardware?
Don't forget that alongside the battle to protect the copyright of recorded works, there is a similar battle to protect the copyright of software. Micro$oft probably think that if users are prevented from using illegal copies of their products, their profits will vastly increase.
They may even be right, and since the users they want to target are the business users, stronger laws are probably enough to brow-beat those business users into paying up.
Once Micro$oft were behind things like DMCA, their side was chosen.
Don't forget that alongside the battle to protect the copyright of recorded works, there is a similar battle to protect the copyright of software. Micro$oft probably think that if users are prevented from using illegal copies of their products, their profits will vastly increase.
They may even be right, and since the users they want to target are the business users, stronger laws are probably enough to brow-beat those business users into paying up.
Once Micro$oft were behind things like DMCA, their side was chosen.
