[huskerlug] A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
- From: GreyGeek <jkreps@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 10:59:00 -0600
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
Executive Executive Summary
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The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the
longest suicide note in history.
Executive Summary
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Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to
provide content protection for so-called "premium content", typically HD data
from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable
costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical
support overhead, and hardware and software cost. These issues affect not only
users of Vista but the entire PC industry, since the effects of the
protection measures extend to cover all hardware and software that will ever
come into contact with Vista, even if it's not used directly with Vista (for
example hardware in a Macintosh computer or on a Linux server). This document
analyses the cost involved in Vista's content protection, and the collateral
damage that this incurs throughout the computer industry.
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