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If you thought Microsoft would just lay down and die...

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Doctor V:

quote: "With rights-managed licensing, consumers can help sustain the flow of fresh creative work, confident that they have legitimately acquired rights to content that is authentic, of highest quality, and virus-free."
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Virus-free?  No wonder Windows security sucks so much.  Its obvious Ballmer actually knows nothing about viruses.  They're selling virus-free MP3s?  This is making me laugh.  :D    :D    :D  

V

NM:
He's probably thinking of .wma files.  Knowing Microsoft there probably is a potential virus threat someplace, and of course, they're not fixing it until they're forced to.

jtpenrod:
I really liked this part:
quote:Here, for example, we have the whistleblower's nemesis, the unreadable or disappearing document: "...our forthcoming Office 2003 productivity software suite will enable users to designate who can open a document or email message, and specify the terms of use - for example, whether they can print, copy or forward the data. A rights management add-on for Internet Explorer will extend these protections to Web content." And you won't be able to do business with people using Microsoft rights management unless you're playing rights management too.

This will not result in a neo-Stalinist world where information flow is tightly circumscribed and where embarrassing/contentious documents disappear from the Web at the drop of an injunction you'd never even heard about. On the contrary: "As these technologies become widespread, their protection will help encourage wider sharing of information within and between organizations, improving communication and productivity by assuring information workers of the confidentiality of their documents and data."
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That'll last long enough for, let's say, Al Qaida to use it to plan an attack, or the Medellin cartel to arrange a shipment of coke.    

After that, the gov't won't tolerate this. Bad for law enforcement, not being able to snoop.

Hmmmm... May be, just may be Ballmer's finally on to something?    :D  
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choasforages:
so quick to forget the clipper chip, so naive to beileve their claims you are. unable to see government holding keys to such a system you are
/*hehe, i think i might stick around more then a few post's this time*/

KernelPanic:
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