Media-Win7 Love Affair Ends Thanks To DRM?
Posted: February 19th, 2009 | Author: lrei | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: linux, Slashdot, Software, Tech | 4 Comments »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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“the first big mainstream negative piece about Windows 7. Hopefully, the first of many.”
So your position is not to criticize bad technology for being bad and praising good for being well done? Have you just joined a camp and became partial?
I don’t think Win7 is good technology. Sure it’s a good thing that they bothered to improve Vista a bit. But it is too little, too late. Win7 still sucks almost as much as Vista did. A bad piece of software that is a hell of a lot worse than the competition. If you compare it to Vista than it deserves some praise for being better than it I guess… but if you compare it to Ubuntu or OSX than it deserves to be criticized.
Could you explain us why? This DRM pseudo-article doesn’t count, it just happens to be not based on facts.
Why what? Why I think the Media-Win7 love might be over? Because up until that article, accurate or not, all wide-spread media pieces had been basically win7 propaganda.
Or why Win7 sucks? Well that would be text for an entire post or segments of post but the short version is OSX and Ubuntu (the competition) are much much better.