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Originally Posted by cyberxxx
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You gotta laugh:
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Say you've just bought Pink Floyd's “The Dark Side of the Moon”, released as a Super Audio CD (SACD) in its 30th anniversary edition in 2003, and you want to play it under Vista (I'm just using SACD as a representative example of protected audio content because it's a well-known technology, in practice Sony has refused to license it for playback on PCs). Since the S/PDIF link to your amplifier/speakers is regarded as insecure for playing the SA content, Vista would disable it, and you'd end up hearing a performance by Marcel Marceau instead of Pink Floyd.
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Basically, people are upset because Vista is respecting the wishes of the people who sold you the music. The people who sold the music don't want it played over a digital output (because it could be easily digitally duplicated) and Vista is respecting that (otherwise they would likely get sued). If you have a problem with that, take it up with Sony, not with Microsoft.
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As of this writing, major vendors like nVidia (graphics) and Creative Labs (sound) still don't have their Vista drivers ready.
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Again, if you have an issue, take it up with those companies, not microsoft. Quite simply, they have had the better part of 12 months to write drivers, and they decided to say "fuck our customers, we won't do it". It isn't microsoft's fault if your hardware manufacture can't be bothered to join the future.
99% of the bitching on that particular site either involves (a) third party issues that the writer is attempting to pin onto microsoft, or (b) a failure to understand certain legal restrictions for digital media playback that exist.
I would think that this guy probably writes freeware for linux systems.