DRM- What the?
Posted by Ben | Under Microsoft, Technologically Inept Tuesday Jul 29, 2008
Is it Friday yet? Seriously. I am already sick of this job, why couldn’t I have gotten an internship somewhere cool where I could be outside all day instead of in front of a stupid PC?
Okay so I’ve been reading a lot about how people hate the DRM setup in Vista. I would love to agree but… what the heck does it mean??
Some people are saying they can’t play videos they payed for on Netflix, can’t record American Gladiators, and can’t play their video games fast enough.
I went to Wikipedia to try to find out more and my head is still spinning.
Apparently, for most media types in Vista you have to own the rights to play them. I guess this is a good thing? I guess it’s good if DRM limits piracy (not really actually, if I can’t burn my copy of the Kim Kardashian video(s) so I can watch them on my flatscreen! BASTARDS!), but if this is why Vista runs so slow at work and my boss is always bitching about not getting work done on time then can I just get rid of it?
DRM only uses cpu cycles when it is authorizing content. So it has no impact on the overall performance of the computer.
Whether or not to use DRM is up to the publsiher. Vista supports both DRM and non-DRM content…it’s very flexible in that regard. All modern operating systems can support DRM.