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Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid ... 16/2259257


"A few days' testing of Windows 7 has already disclosed some draconian DRM, some of it unrelated to media files. A legitimate copy of Photoshop CS4 stopped functioning after we clobbered a nagging registration screen by replacing a DLL with a hacked version. With regard to media files, the days of capturing an audio program on your PC seem to be over (if the program originated on that PC). The inputs of your sound card are severely degraded in software if the card is also playing an audio program (tested here with Grooveshark). This may be the tip of the iceberg. Being in bed with the RIAA is bad enough, but locking your own files away from you is a tactic so outrageous it may kill the OS for many persons. Many users will not want to experiment with a second sound card or computer just to record from online sources, or boot up under a Linux that supports ntfs-3g just to control their files."

Ah, that doesn't sound so bad.

Is anyone really surprised by this?! This is M$ after all.

Well, sometimes if you want to play with the big boys you have to play by their rules. And by that I mean big comapies..not literal large like..children..but..anyway, so I think that MS are just trying to insure they are the go to-able guys for most large companies. But, I don't think that normal users are going to like this. So, they'll have all the companies and no'one to buy thier junk! hahaha...