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Author: john lewis
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Peter Gutmann on Vista Content Protection
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:07:33 +0000 (UTC)
Nick Chalk <nick@???> wrote:

> An interesting article by Peter Gutmann on Vista's
> specification for "content protection"...
>
>    http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt

>
> It's no wonder MS took five years to write it,
> with all that unnecessary complexity added.


If what he writes is only half true then I am glad my PCs are never
used for playing music, watching TV or playing DVDs. And I'll never
buy a motherboard with integrated graphics or sound - which
probably means I'll have to stay with my current one :-(

--
John Lewis
Debian Linux with Geneweb genealogy application