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Microsoft's DRM visionMicrosoft's DRM visionPosted Aug 13, 2005 10:21 UTC (Sat) by job (subscriber, #670)In reply to: Microsoft's DRM vision by emkey Parent article: Microsoft's DRM vision
I agree with your reasoning but my conclusion is the opposite. Law is easier to fight. Fighting policy is next to impossible, and must be done now before there is a problem.
The comparison with non-free 3d drivers is a good one. Yes, the market would decide -- if the consumers had a choice in the first place. You would expect with so many million Linux users that there was a market for well documented graphics cards, but we haven't seen one in almost ten years. There is no such thing as the freedom of the consumer.
Another more closely related example is the DVD. Yes, it was a bad first try from the movie industry but still causes no end of grief since you can't install a Linux distribution and watch your movies right out of the box. The Linux-on-Xbox project was a superhuman effort just because Microsoft did just a little bit better. Expect it to be close to impossible if they do a good job next time.
I say go after the manufacturers. Let them know right in advance that we're not interested in crippled hardware. Otherwise we'll soon find ourselves up to our knees in cheap but crippled hardware, and even if there still exists expensive but non-crippled hardware, we both know what everybody's going to buy.
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