From ruben@mrbrklyn.com  Sun Jan  6 00:30:26 2002
From: ruben@mrbrklyn.com (Ruben Safir)
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 19:30:26 -0500
Subject: [fairuse-discuss] Re: [Patents] MS Patent for Digital Rights Management OS
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201052151090.22657-100000@mulix.oas.a2e.de>; from phm@a2e.de on Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 15:56:13 -0500
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On Don't have so much faith in IBM.

They nearly implimented spyware on the IDE hard drives.


Ruben

2002.01.05 15:56:13 -0500 PILCH Hartmut wrote:
>>
>>> In that case; it's not Microsoft that is going to force you to use this
>>> kind of DRM OS but for sure the content owner (Studios, ...)
>>> If you want to see these contents, you will have to use the DRM OS
>>>
>>> Through this patent, MS is just trying to make sure that the DRM OS is
>>> going to be a MS one.
>>
>>The DRM OS concept works only if it is backed up by laws that require all
>>machine vendors to construct the machines in such a way that they work
>>only with a DRM OS.  This has been and is being attempted in the US, but
>>companies like IBM are against it.  One of the proposals is called SSSCA.
>>Given the DRM OS patent, such a proposal could be tantamount to an
>>official sanctioning of Microsofts OS monopoly position.  Even without the
>>patent, the introduction of SSSCA would reinforce the MS monopoly and make
>>free software impossible.
>>
>>-- 
>>Hartmut Pilch                                          http://phm.ffii.org/
>>Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation	     http://swpat.ffii.org/
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>>
>>
>>
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