PC Users Hold the Key to Microsoft's DRM System
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A new program can circumvent the company's safeguards and make the copying of music and videos relatively easy.
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The panic that wasn't Seven years ago, The Register broke what became the biggest DRM story of all time. It described a plot that took place in obscure committee rooms that was quite cunning in its insidiousness. Had it succeeded and been implemented, it would have seen the demise of the open personal computer platform - without anyone realising it. For the first time, many of us became fully aware of the consequences of a locked-down PC.â¦
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p2pnet.net News:- Here&#39;s an interesting twist on the Big Music and Microsoft All Pals Together (maybe) story. We reported that the Big Four record labels have given Microsoft a Wish List of the kind of DRM
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A Microsoft UK replacement scheme for pirate copies of Windows XP suggests the company is testing the waters to see how feasible it is to convert sections of its unlicensed user base to legitimate users.
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Microsoft's music player isn't the lame duck some critics have called it, says Jon Johansen, the guy who cracked DVD encryption. In Listening Post.
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Free software advocates rallied   against certain limits on copying music and films on Tuesday in   a global "Day against DRM" (Digital Rights Management), saying   consumers are robbed of their fair-use rights as entertainment   goes digital and online.
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Barely hours after home users started securing their PCs with a key update for Windows XP, security experts have found ways around it.
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DRM restrictions may have caused Microsoft's Vista virtualization flip-flop.
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LicenseWise and Windows Vista Hardware Assessment help users navigate Microsoft offerings.
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Windows users could soon be paying for Microsoft software that keeps their machine free of spyware.
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By ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE  SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. is scrambling to update its Windows Media software after a hacker released a program that circumvents a safeguard designed to prevent people from freely copying digital movies and songs.
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Microsoft last week quietly launched a pilot program to tackle the increasing problem of software piracy. Windows Genuine Advantage is the first trial of a validation scheme operating on Microsoftâs Download Center.
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The new antipiracy controls due to be included in Microsoft's forthcoming operating system, Windows Vista, have highlighted the ongoing threat of piracy faced by many software companies.
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Free software advocates rallied  against certain limits on copying music and films on Tuesday in  a global "Day against DRM" (Digital Rights Management), saying  consumers are robbed of their fair-use rights as entertainment  goes digital and online.
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Even as the Big Four push to remove antipiracy software from digital downloads, larger issues remain. Don't expect a DRM-free world anytime soon.
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Microsoft Windows users need to watch out for several flaws in non-Microsoft media players.
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Despite reports to the contrary, Microsoft has confirmed to BetaNews that it has made no changes to its Windows Genuine Advantage program to lock out users with invalid or pirated keys. "Microsoft has no plans to lock users out of their PCs, nor does it have the technical capacity to do so," the company told BetaNews.