Windows 7s draconian DRM?
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 18.2.2009
Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversOnce again, we see fanciful claims about ludicrous DRM schemes in the new Windows operating system, but a closer look suggests that Windows isn't to blame after all. Most users, in fact, won't even notice Windows 7's DRM.
The popular technology website Slashdot plumbed new depths on Tuesday with a post about the terrible DRM situation in Windows 7. Proving that some sites will publish just about anything as long as it's anti-Microsoft, the post enumerated the DRM restrictions that Windows 7 apparently inflicts on the honest and upstanding computer user.
What was claimed? Well, some guy decided that he wanted to crack his (legally purchased, no doubt) copy of Photoshop on his Windows 7 install. Windows 7 then sprung into life to break his crack, defend Photoshop's virtue against his unwelcome advances, protect a load of random DLLs from deletion, and open up the firewall so that Adobe could see that he was up to no good. Yup yup. To add insult to injury, Windows 7 then crippled the dude's sound card. Or something.
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Comments(13)
i will most defiantly not be using win7 if this is the case.
drm is barely noticeable in vista, and given how popular it has been in the public eye
*eye-roll*, i'm sure that it will not be a big deal in win7.
as if a microsoft
product cares whether or not an adobe product is legitimately licensed...
guys the article is intended to imply that they're liars saying that cracking software
on win7 will do them things. just because they're anti-microsoft.
its not true. lol
as yoyoma said it will be prossible like vista, which was never a big deal.
there was a audiodg.exe that was running my cpu at 100% its part of windows drm had to
disable a enhancement too stop it its in vista aswell
the claim is satire, there's no drm in the os that does what the guy claims, if your so
paranoid, download the os yourself and do what he did, nothing will happen
another linux nazi spreading fudd...
the guy is stupid and a liar i'm runnig windows 7 build 7000 and i have adobe cs4 master
suite installed since december and it works great and for your information that's not the
only software i have cracked so anyone who believes this guy is more stupid than he is.
i think microsoft is in grave danger of repeating the xp vista problem it got itself into
during 2008. i ask what real incentive will people have to upgrade from windows vista to
windows 7 i have yet to be convinced that there will be any real advantage in win7.
therefore microsoft might have a problem with a vista win7 market share problem all over
again. and that's not even taking into account that we may well still be in the depths of
a sever recession when win7 is released to the general public (retail).
cyteck,have you tried windows 7? obviously not,if you don't know what the incentive is!
ppl win7 is by far the best retail os we've ever seen. i'm running win7 beta for months
now with no problems and trust me: i'm using tons of cracks. the whole drm story is
nonsense if not intentionally malignant. win7 is a decent os with no stupid drm strings
attached. go study computer science then become anti-microsoft. some ppl will just say
anything as long as it's against the s/w giant. fine! the choice is yours, but stopping
spreading c-r-a-p!
drwillmore is right, i have been running build 7002 for as long as its been available,
and i pay for no software ! ! antivirus, everything is cracked, always has been,
always will be,. no issues at all with win 7 here! in fact everything runs a lot better,
starts faster, everything. much better than vista ! try it you'll like it !
i like window7 craps all over vista and im happy to say beats xp i also have had no probs
with cracks but it does have drm in it look it up audiodg.exe 1 system was fine the other
sat at 100% cpu and i had too disable a enhancement for it too stop
i'm glad microsoft is clamping down on piracy, people like me who spend £10,000 on the
latest software feel hard done by to find the stuff free on a p2p. anybody else found avg
8 popping up a nag lately?
Windows 7 RTM 7600.16385.090713-1255 HERE !
F*** That
By Unknown Guy on 19.02.2009 - 00:02