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evieg <evieg@noway.com> wrote in
news:Xns96C2C42295B47eviegcom@207.69.189.191:
> Leythos <void@nowhere.lan> wrote in
> news:MPG.1d7e899d5fa42d47989dd1@news-server.columbus.rr.com:
>
>> In article <eX08k9ZrFHA.3604@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>, webworm12
>> @yes.lycs.com says...
>>> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:47:33 GMT, Leythos <void@nowhere.lan> wrote:
>>>
>>> >In article <3njnkhF1rd08U1@individual.net>, webworm11@lycosy.com
>>> >says...
>>> >> I apologize for the rant.
>>> >>
>>> >>
http://snipurl.com/hbl7
>>> >>
>>> >> I have made my decision
>>> >>
>>> >> Vista I will not be buying.
>>> >>
>>> >> No one is not going to tell me. I can't have access to a part of
>>> >> the computer or the hard drive. Imagine if a virus, spyware or
>>> >> adaware got into that protected area and a virus program could
>>> >> not clean it.
>>> >>
>>> >> I'm Sticking with xp & windows 98se forever.
>>> >>
>>> >> If I have to get a new computer it will be either mac or linux
>>> >> system.
>>> >
>>> >So, what you're saying, is that you want the option to be able to
>>> >steal media if you choose and it's not the right of the OS vendor
>>> >to limit you in any way?
>>>
>>> Quit putting words into my mouth. I did not say I had the right to
>>> steal.
>>>
>>> The OS should not be able to control what I do or don't do period.
>>> That not the operating system responsibility. That is mine. I
>>> want to see everything and have access to everything on the computer
>>> period.
>>>
>>> Let use this analogy.
>>> Some one builds you a home.
>>> They put a private room in
>>> Only Microsoft and Certain people can use it. You are not allowed
>>> access to it. Even through it is in your own house.
>>
>> Lets see, you buy an OS, it permits you to do anything legal that you
>> want, you can copy music, you can copy video, all as long as you have
>> a legal right to it - what part are you left without?
>>
>> Your analogy should be more like:
>>
>> You buy a house.
>> You want to make crack in it.
>> The government has rules against it - you have a choice.
>> You start making crack.
>> You get your home taken away by the government.
>>
>
> The real weak link in all of this stuff from Microsoft is the fact
> that human beings experience the world in an analog fashion. The
> sound we hear - no matter how well protected has to be converted to an
> audible signal and the video we see has to be converted to a visual
> one - no amount of digital protection will stop a fully protected
> device from displaying its picture and speakers producing their sound.
>
> I have an inline scan converter that the VGA output from the computer
> attaches to - and then passes on to the computer. While inside the
> little gizmo - it splits the video out to a NTSC standard output I
> have attached to the VCR/DVD recorder. I bought a signal splitter for
> $2.00 for the audio and run one line into the VCR/DVD and the other
> into the computer. Slower method of capture of course - real-time,
> instead os just capturing bits - but works fine.
>
> The articles I have read have stated Microsoft might fuzzy up the
> picture so that HDTV quality would not be there - but would equal
> DVD-quality at present-levels. I can live with that.
>
> This "new" scheme is just that - a new "scheme" - the articles have
> stated it will only work on Windows Media - so Microsoft is probably
> salivating on how much money they can make selling something that will
> not work - just as surely as DRM does not. Yes it works digitally -
> but again folks live in an analog world and it does not work. Being
> doing this for years with internet audio I wanted to capture - just
> hook the audio out into my Dolby Digital Tape Recorder and capture on
> metal oxide tape with excellent sound - and digital too!!
>
> cya
>
> a fools game from Microsoft on DRM
Just an extra note:
if all else fails - I just point my Sony Digital Camcorder at the screen
making certain of correct settings, etc and a perfect copy also the
achieved.
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