Apple's DRM-free movement just another poke at Windows

So, it maybe completely beside the point that most Vista ready computers aren't, and that drivers aren't ready, and it is going to take 4 gigs of Ram to run Vista and a word processor, but after reading/listening to this security/cost analysis paper that explains how Microsoft has made DRM the true reason for being of Vista and how it hands security decisions over to Hollywood and literally degrades performance if your hardware is too good.

Here is a link to the text:

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt

And this is to the podcast feed where the reading of the document is performed by Cory Doctorow for your listening pleasure.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podcast

But before you go away to check this out, consider this.

Just as Vista is being released, Apple suddenly starts working against DRM. Jobs calls for DRM-free music and iTune comes out with a deal for better, DRM-free tracks from EMI. Other production companies are planing ot follow suit, with Universal and Amazon are making moves for DRM-free content.

With Vista set to screw up your HD life with its draconian, "The USSR were pussies" security and controls", there is a lot more at stake with DRM than whether you can download iTunes to you Zune. I don't hear Norway complaining about the DRM controls in Vista, strange huh? Yep. No politics in the EU, just out to "protect" their citizens.

I have to give out credit to boingboing.net for turning me on to this, and the gaget/tecb news site gizmodo.com for turning me on to the very interesting news on boingboing.com.