A few days ago I read a Slashdot article entitled “Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7” in which a number of sweeping statements were made about DRM (Digital Rights Management) features allegedly built into Windows 7 with the author eventually pontificating that "being in bed with the RIAA is bad enough, but locking your own files away from you is a tactic so outrageous it may kill the OS for many persons”. Scary stuff, huh ?
So you can imagine my surprise when I read an article on Ars Technica today which makes it very clear that the Slashdot article mentioned above might not be the most well-researched or - perish the thought - correct thing that’s ever been published on the interwebs.
I will leave it for you to read the two articles and draw your own conclusions about the veracity of both however I did like the fact that Ars Technica pointed out that the DRM-related doom and gloom scenarios which many ‘experts’ predicted would be caused by Windows Vista simply didn’t come to pass.
Groundhog Day was still a great movie though :-)
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