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From: ruben@mrbrklyn.com (Ruben Safir)
Subject: [fairuse-discuss] Re: [Patents] MS Patent for Digital Rights Management OS
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 19:30:26 -0500
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:
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>>> 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.
>>
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