Media-Win7 Love Affair Ends Thanks To DRM?

Slashdot | Draconian DRM Revealed In Windows 7

“A few days’ testing of Windows 7 has already disclosed some draconian DRM, some of it unrelated to media files. A legitimate copy of Photoshop CS4 stopped functioning after we clobbered a nagging registration screen by replacing a DLL with a hacked version. With regard to media files, the days of capturing an audio program on your PC seem to be over (if the program originated on that PC). The inputs of your sound card are severely degraded in software if the card is also playing an audio program (tested here with Grooveshark). This may be the tip of the iceberg. Being in bed with the RIAA is bad enough, but locking your own files away from you is a tactic so outrageous it may kill the OS for many persons. Many users will not want to experiment with a second sound card or computer just to record from online sources, or boot up under a Linux that supports ntfs-3g just to control their files.”

I’ve found it strange how (almost) all media around the intertubes has been “in love” with Windows 7 which is just Windows Vista slightly decrapified and slightly optimized – coming out 3 years after Vista first came out. The whole thing seems to be a success story in lowering expectations.

This whole DRM thing is the first big mainstream negative piece about Windows 7. Hopefully, the first of many.

And in case you missed it when it first went around the blogosphere: Is it Windows 7 or KDE 4?

In this video, we take to Sydney’s streets to find out what people think of what they think is a Windows 7 demonstration. The net result? Mainly, people just didn’t like Vista.

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