Originally Posted by Dirich
I am anti Vista because of Palladium. Tough it's ok to try to stop internet sharing of music and programs, it's totally outrageous that this technology locks your hardware if it's not one that he can recognize. Actually this means it's been "approved by" and registered to (by paying a certain amount) a certain society (the one founded by the palladium consortium). And it's the death of freeware too, because you'll need to pay to register your programs in order to them to be recognized by the system (if it's not, the program is locked because considered "possibly hacked").
This is something I read a couple of years ago.
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It's also basically completely inapplicable to the Vista we got, rather than the one that was being discussed several years ago.
The only real DRM technology that made it into Vista is the protected content path for HD content.