Windows DRM is the ‘longest suicide note in history’
University of Auckland medical imaging researcher, Peter Gutmann has written an excellent article on the impacts of Windows Vista DRM on the end user, YOU. A great read.
Original article can be found at:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
This has ignited a debate again over DRM and its usage in not only the PC space, but is also relevant to other devices–such as STBs, mobile phones etc.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/vista_drm_analysis/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/27/windows_drm_monstered/
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/25/2034238
Executive Summary
Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”, typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost. These issues affect not only users of Vista but the entire PC industry, since the effects of the protection measures extend to cover all hardware and software that will ever come into contact with Vista, even if it’s not used directly with Vista (for example hardware in a Macintosh computer or on a Linux server). This document analyses the cost involved in Vista’s content protection, and the collateral damage that this incurs throughout the computer industry.