Comments on: Vista and DRM – Don’t just lie… http://www.philoking.com/2007/06/04/vista-and-drm-dont-just-lie/ Computing for the OS Agnostic Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:10:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SHRIKEE http://www.philoking.com/2007/06/04/vista-and-drm-dont-just-lie/comment-page-1/#comment-14063 SHRIKEE Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:44:38 +0000 http://www.philoking.com/2007/06/04/vista-and-drm-dont-just-lie/#comment-14063 Although you are right, i think the point of many (not all) people writing about "DRM in Vista" is the idea or fear of restriction. Not whether they actually are restricted or not... Sure many think DRM is enabled by default on Vista. And to some extend i think it is enabled. Look at the DVD copy protection thing for example. Media player checks if your DVD is legal and if it thinks it's not it won't play... (I've experienced this firsthand but on XP with the latest WMP) But one cannot claim DRM is active if regular downloaded MP3s still will play. If you think about it. How many ACTUAL reports are there from people that their MP3s or whatever files won't play... But there are also many people, like me, who realize DRM is not active but still won't use Vista because it can be activated... Which would suck bigtime. I don't like to be restricted by my software, or the possibility there of. I believe it's not for Vista (or any operating system) to decide if software is illegal or not. If someone asks me why I won't use Vista, i will answer that person; Because of the implemented DRM, bloated system requirements *Yes they're not as high as everyone thinks, but still...* and it's nature to make it more easy (read annoying) for people to use. I'll also have to admit that I have no extensive experience with Vista. I have been on other peoples computers who use Vista and got annoyed with it so much I was able to make up my mind about it. Although you are right, i think the point of many (not all) people writing about “DRM in Vista” is the idea or fear of restriction. Not whether they actually are restricted or not…

Sure many think DRM is enabled by default on Vista. And to some extend i think it is enabled. Look at the DVD copy protection thing for example. Media player checks if your DVD is legal and if it thinks it’s not it won’t play… (I’ve experienced this firsthand but on XP with the latest WMP)
But one cannot claim DRM is active if regular downloaded MP3s still will play. If you think about it. How many ACTUAL reports are there from people that their MP3s or whatever files won’t play…

But there are also many people, like me, who realize DRM is not active but still won’t use Vista because it can be activated… Which would suck bigtime.
I don’t like to be restricted by my software, or the possibility there of. I believe it’s not for Vista (or any operating system) to decide if software is illegal or not.

If someone asks me why I won’t use Vista, i will answer that person; Because of the implemented DRM, bloated system requirements *Yes they’re not as high as everyone thinks, but still…* and it’s nature to make it more easy (read annoying) for people to use.

I’ll also have to admit that I have no extensive experience with Vista. I have been on other peoples computers who use Vista and got annoyed with it so much I was able to make up my mind about it.

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