Krüppel-Vista: Inhaltsschutz bis nichts mehr geht
Hier kann man eine schöne Analyse der neuen “Schutzmechanismen” von Windows Vista finden. Den Inhalt, der leider nur in Englisch verfügbar ist, beschreibt der Autor in seinem “Executive Executive Summary” zusammenfassend folgendermaßen:
The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the
longest suicide note in history [Note A].
Erschreckend sind auch die möglichen Auswirkungen der rigorosen Kopierschutzmaßnahmen:
Beyond the obvious playback-quality implications of deliberately degraded output, this measure can have serious repercussions in applications where high-quality reproduction of content is vital. For example the field of medical imaging either bans outright or strongly frowns on any form of lossy compression because artefacts introduced by the compression process can cause mis-diagnoses and in extreme cases even become life-threatening. Consider a medical IT worker who’s using a medical imaging PC while listening to audio/video played back by the computer. This scenario is already very common, the CDROM drives installed in workplace PCs inevitably spend most of their working lives playing music or MP3 CDs to drown out workplace noise.