DRM is going to totally choke the life out of computers and free flow of ideas. Similar to Vista would be Sony's history of supporting their own dubious, and faulty DRM media like ATRAC, CD root kits etc..
I just think it's a joke they're trying to disable s/pdif or YPbPr connections from the get go to stem piracy. A user should be allowed to make those decisions themselves for media they bought themselves. Having software preinstalled in the first place that even gives you those options is draconian since it's put under the suspicion endusers can't be trusted to do the right thing. If anything what recent debaucles Sony had installing rootkit's and generally mucking up users cpu and being sued should have made Microsoft ease up on their copy protections.
Microsoft though has history of having screwy DRM i.e. their recent escapades touting Zune's flexible content sharing Squirts, 3-day loans of songs to other users but not supporting their own PlaysForSure DRM scheme they have other companies go through when they seek to have mp3/aac players that work correctly with Windows Media Player. A player which compared to other programs like Winamp, iTunes, foobar is pretty archaic and boring.
I have a strong premonition that Vista is going to bite MS in the you know where if they don't ease up on the copy protection. We've already seen it happen recently with PS3 sales really stagnating even during the holiday season because people don't see the benefit of paying more for something that doesn't deliver much of an improvement.
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