SNEAKY DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT

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anonymous

It has come to the attention of several of the computing
members of the world that all recent Microsoft updates,
including Windows media player 9, contain encrypting that
searches your computer for pirated files and sends the
report to microsoft. If you have such files, you are not
trusted and cannot access most files on your computer.
Pirates: don't update AT ALL.
 
Hehe that's helpful... no updates will leave the "Pirates" open to numerous
vulnerabilities that will probably soon shut them down....

Could you give me a clue as to what constitutes a "Pirated" file and how
Media Player can tell, I think there may be a bug in this all seeing all
knowing routine you speak of <g>

No I am not advocating piracy but some of us do research and legitimate
testing and DRM is essential for MS multi media products to be credible for
businesses to use them. No reputable business is going to buy anything from
MS if they don't pay attention to copyright issues. MS don't make that much
money from home users ya know, business sales are what keep us ordinary
mortals getting cheap / free improvements.

So do tell, which of these "Several Members" can give us some details of
this?

Charlie
 
anonymous said:
It has come to the attention of several of the computing
members of the world that all recent Microsoft updates,
including Windows media player 9, contain encrypting that
searches your computer for pirated files and sends the
report to microsoft. If you have such files, you are not
trusted and cannot access most files on your computer.
Pirates: don't update AT ALL.
Click to expand...

DRM is here to stay, in all shapes and sizes.
http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?lang=en&page=knowledgebase/threats/spybots-cdilla
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1088341,00.asp
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siljaline

"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_
 
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