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Story: Linux 'needs DRM support' for consumer success

Posted by: David Wright (Friday 7 April 2006, 1:25 PM)

Well, considering that my hi definition monitors and my graphics cards are perfeclty acceptable for the next few years, but they don't support HDCP, it is pretty irrelevant whether I upgrade to Vista or go DRM free - unless Hollywood are going to come round and retro-fit all my hardware...

I've used DRM in the past and it just gets in the way, the best was Microsofts WMA, after getting around 20GB's of WMA's, Windows trashed itself and I had to re-install, WMP complained that all of my media wasn't mine, so I had to go and get it all again - the second time I made sure it was all in a non-DRMed format, never again!

I think it is time the music and film industries stopped treating their customers as potential thieves and started concentrating on the bad guys...

The root-kitting of the "Mr & Mrs Smith" DVD by Kinowelt was the last straw for me. No more Windows for playing media!