Weinstein: automatic hobbling mechanisms in Vista
4th Oct 2006, 17:44 GMT
Lauren Weinstein has sent a message to his Privacy Forum on the anti-piracy mechanisms which, it seems, will be built into Microsoft Vista. Free software looks more appealing all the time. "In particular, Vista will include technologies that can be used by MS to drastically reduce the functionality of systems that they believe to be pirated. This restricted environment will give users a choice between running Windows in its very limited 'Safe Mode' (apparently with networking disabled), or alternatively running a Web browser that will exit automatically after each hour or so of usage."
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