Microsoft sues over source code theft (News.com)
Microsoft sues over source code theft (News.com)
Posted Sep 27, 2006 19:59 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333)In reply to: Microsoft sues over source code theft (News.com) by rknop
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Bah, screw Microsoft.
Just point out to people that this is the sort of crap they do and you simply cannot trust them. They'll put their marketting and their business partners ahead of you every single time.
I think that people have this impression that DRM is like this nessicary evil that comsumers will fall for in order pay large amounts of money to watch re-runs of old TV shows and movies on their computer and their cell phones. They maybe figure that it's a sham to make media companies happy and that like with Itunes with it's ability to burn music CDROMs that it's always going to be easy to work around.
So this guy comes out, makes a nice program to make people's computer portion of their lives a bit easier to stand while using Microsoft... And gets sued for it.
So MS is actually serious about inflicting DRM on it's customers.
Going to the lawsuit may not cost Microsoft much, but if they loose a few tens of thousand customers to Free software it will.
Posted Sep 27, 2006 20:42 UTC (Wed)
by rogerd (guest, #4170)
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Posted Sep 27, 2006 20:46 UTC (Wed)
by mikov (guest, #33179)
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Posted Sep 27, 2006 22:14 UTC (Wed)
by rogerd (guest, #4170)
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Comcast seems like another monopoly in my area that is jacking with us to provide more DRM content, HDTV. I will have to succomb to their marketing methods and STB to receive anything beyond local channels, most of which I do not watch. Dish competes, but you have to have a dish and STB. I'm asking the networks to stay off the encrypted signals with at least part of their programming.
Posted Sep 28, 2006 1:57 UTC (Thu)
by zotz (guest, #26117)
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all the best,
drew
Posted Sep 28, 2006 4:51 UTC (Thu)
by bryanr (guest, #25324)
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Unfortunately it will take tens or hundreds of MILLIONS of customers to get their attention. Other than that, I'm one on the ten thousand with you. Comcast is next on my hit list.Microsoft sues over source code theft (News.com)
Why Comcast ? Microsoft sues over source code theft (News.com)
I really don't want to crowd this topic. Sorry.Microsoft sues over source code theft (News.com)
I, on the other hand, am looking for my cable company to go all digital and perhaps encrypted if it means I can keep my cable internet and drop my cable tv bill. Right now, I have to buy and pay for the tv side, which I don't want, in order to get the internet side.Microsoft sues over source code theft (News.com)
High fidelity IPTV is here today -- it's just called USENETIPTV