Windows Vista: Privacy & DRM

Technology Review publish an article about the new Windows Vista:

Will Windows Upgrade Hand Power to Big Media?

" So what you'll hear about Vista depends on whom you ask. According to Microsoft representatives, the new operating system (which was known until recently by its Microsoft code name, Longhorn, and is now scheduled to ship in late-2006) will be a vastly more secure platform for delivering high-quality entertainment content.

But ask analysts at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the well-known Internet civil-rights organization based in San Francisco, and you'll hear talk of Vista turning into a highly restrictive sandbox--where only the major movie studios decide who can play. "

Full article at Tech Review

Links:


Seth Schoen's articles at www.eff.org

Microsoft's explanation of DRM features in Windows Vista

Freedom to Tinker, a blog by Princeton U. computer scientist Ed Felten on restrictions on user-modifiable technology

"Why would MS do Hollywood's Bidding?," a blog entry by the EFF's Fred von Lohmann