Vista, brukerfiendtlig DRM og kontroll?

[Tha Dude]

Er dette sant?

 

http://badvista.fsf.org/what-s-wrong-with-...t-windows-vista

 

What's wrong with Microsoft Windows Vista?

by John Sullivan — last modified 2007-04-16 18:53

 

Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system is a giant step backward for your freedoms.

 

Usually, new software enables you to do more with your computer. Vista, though, is designed to restrict what you can do.

 

Vista enforces new forms of “Digital Rights Management (DRM)”. DRM is more accurately called Digital Restrictions Management, because it is a technology that Big Media and computer companies try to impose on us all, in order to have control over how our computers are used.

 

Technology security expert Bruce Schneier explains it most concisely:

 

Windows Vista includes an array of “features” that you don't want. These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure. They'll make your computer less stable and run slower. They will cause technical support problems. They may even require you to upgrade some of your peripheral hardware and existing software. And these features won't do anything useful. In fact, they're working against you. They're digital rights management (DRM) features built into Vista at the behest of the entertainment industry—And you don't get to refuse them.

 

DRM gives power to Microsoft and Big Media.

 

* They decide which programs you can and can't use on your computer

* They decide which features of your computer or software you can use at any given moment

* They force you to install new programs even when you don't want to (and, of course, pay for the privilege)

* They restrict your access to certain programs and even to your own data files

 

DRM is enforced by technological barriers. You try to do something, and your computer tells you that you can't. To make this effective, your computer has to be constantly monitoring what you are doing. This constant monitoring uses computing power and memory, and is a large part of the reason why Microsoft is telling you that you have to buy new and more powerful hardware in order to run Vista. They want you to buy new hardware not because you need it, but because your computer needs it in order to be more effective at restricting what you do.

 

Microsoft and other computer companies sometimes refer to these restrictions as “Trusted Computing.” Given that they are designed to make it so that your computer stops trusting you and starts trusting Microsoft, these restrictions are more appropriately called “Treacherous Computing”.

Even when you legally buy Vista, you don't own it.

 

Windows Vista, like previous versions of Windows, is proprietary software: leased to you under a license that severely restricts how you can use it, and without source code, so nobody but Microsoft can change it or even verify what it really does.

 

Microsoft says it best:

 

The software is licensed, not sold. This agreement only gives you some rights to use the software. Microsoft reserves all other rights. Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you may use the software only as expressly permitted in this agreement. In doing so, you must comply with any technical limitations in the software that only allow you to use it in certain ways.

 

To make it even more confusing, different versions of Vista have different licensing restrictions. You can read all of the licenses at http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/useterms/default.aspx.

 

It's painful to read the licenses, and this is often why people don't object to them. But if we don't start objecting, we will lose valuable freedoms. Here are some of the ridiculous restrictions you will find in your reading:

 

* If your copy of Vista came with the purchase of a new computer, that copy of Vista may only be legally used on that machine, forever.

* If you bought Vista in a retail store and installed it on a machine you already owned, you have to completely delete it on that machine before you can install it on another machine.

* You give Microsoft the right, through programs like Windows Defender, to delete programs from your system that it decides are spyware.

* You consent to being spied upon by Microsoft, through the “Windows Genuine Advantage” system. This system tries to identify instances of copying that Microsoft thinks are illegitimate. Unfortunately, a recent study indicated that this system has already screwed up in over 500,000 cases.

 

Free software like GNU/Linux does not require you to consent to these absurd licensing terms. It is called free software because you are free to make as many copies as you want, and to share it with as many friends as you want. Nobody will be monitoring your actions or falsely calling you a thief.

What you can do to help protect your freedom

 

There is a battle underway between those who value freedom, and corporations such as Microsoft who wish to profit by taking that freedom away. DRM and absurd licenses are at the heart of that battle. Please join us on the side of freedom by saying NO not just to Windows Vista and other DRM-enabled products, but to proprietary software in general. Instead, use non-DRM, “free” software such as the GNU/Linux operating system. You can get your work done while ensuring that your rights and freedoms will not be restricted now and into the future.

 

As more and more of our lives become digital, it is vital that we protect our digital freedoms just like we have always worked to protect our freedom of expression in print and speech.

Endret 4. januar 2008 av Skagen
Tre-ords-regelen.

[Garanti]

Joda, dette er forsåvidt sant, men tenk på at artikkelen er en subjektivt skrevet tekst, og ting kan være satt på spissen, og omformulert til artikkelforfatters egen vinning.

Les mer om DRM her.

Snart kommer det en moderator med beskjed om å endre emnetittel.

[Tha Dude]

Joda, dette er forsåvidt sant, men tenk på at artikkelen er en subjektivt skrevet tekst, og ting kan være satt på spissen, og omformulert til artikkelforfatters egen vinning.

Les mer om DRM her.

Snart kommer det en moderator med beskjed om å endre emnetittel.

 

Joda, men det sier du vel om etterfølgeren til Vista også, når de har tatt enda flere steg imot "big brother"-like metoder.

 

Er det noe DRM med XP?

 

(skiftet emne men aner ikke om det er dekkende heller, suger på titler...)

[GeirGrusom]

Microsoft kan ikke gjøre akkurat som de vil, de må være forsiktige, ellers vil ikke folk bruke windows lenger.

Jeg hater det driversystemet og dert at man ikke kan vise HD filmer i vista... wtf?

 

Men dessverre er linux knotete og kranglete å bruke sammenlignet med windows.

[TCi]

* They decide which programs you can and can't use on your computer

* They decide which features of your computer or software you can use at any given moment

* They force you to install new programs even when you don't want to (and, of course, pay for the privilege)

* They restrict your access to certain programs and even to your own data files

Etter det jeg har forstått gjelder dette bare innhold som har DRM i seg.

DRM is enforced by technological barriers. You try to do something, and your computer tells you that you can't. To make this effective, your computer has to be constantly monitoring what you are doing. This constant monitoring uses computing power and memory, and is a large part of the reason why Microsoft is telling you that you have to buy new and more powerful hardware in order to run Vista. They want you to buy new hardware not because you need it, but because your computer needs it in order to be more effective at restricting what you do.

Tullprat spør du meg. MS krever ikke noe som helst av ditt innkjøp av maskinvare. Det er opp til deg selv. Det er også opp til deg selv å velge OS.

Microsoft and other computer companies sometimes refer to these restrictions as “Trusted Computing.” Given that they are designed to make it so that your computer stops trusting you and starts trusting Microsoft, these restrictions are more appropriately called “Treacherous Computing”.

Even when you legally buy Vista, you don't own it.

Det er vel nettopp derfor du kjøper en lisens er det ikke? En lisens til å bruke det.

* If your copy of Vista came with the purchase of a new computer, that copy of Vista may only be legally used on that machine, forever.

* If you bought Vista in a retail store and installed it on a machine you already owned, you have to completely delete it on that machine before you can install it on another machine.

* You give Microsoft the right, through programs like Windows Defender, to delete programs from your system that it decides are spyware.

* You consent to being spied upon by Microsoft, through the “Windows Genuine Advantage” system. This system tries to identify instances of copying that Microsoft thinks are illegitimate. Unfortunately, a recent study indicated that this system has already screwed up in over 500,000 cases.

Ser ikke helt problemet her. Du kjøper en lisens pr. maskin, ikke en rett til å bruke lisensen på alle dine maskiner. Sier seg selv. MS har rett til å beskytte sin egen programvare. At deres løsning tar feil har lite å si, så lenge det blir rettet opp i.

Free software like GNU/Linux does not require you to consent to these absurd licensing terms. It is called free software because you are free to make as many copies as you want, and to share it with as many friends as you want. Nobody will be monitoring your actions or falsely calling you a thief.

What you can do to help protect your freedom

Hvorfor skal noen overvåke og beskytte gratis programvare? Dette er en idiotisk måte å se det på.

There is a battle underway between those who value freedom, and corporations such as Microsoft who wish to profit by taking that freedom away. DRM and absurd licenses are at the heart of that battle. Please join us on the side of freedom by saying NO not just to Windows Vista and other DRM-enabled products, but to proprietary software in general. Instead, use non-DRM, “free” software such as the GNU/Linux operating system. You can get your work done while ensuring that your rights and freedoms will not be restricted now and into the future.

 

As more and more of our lives become digital, it is vital that we protect our digital freedoms just like we have always worked to protect our freedom of expression in print and speech.

Han får bare preke så mye han vil. Vista beskytter bare data som allerede er beskyttet med DRM. Brukere har rett til å velge hva de selv ønsker, at noen velger Vista ødelegger ikke for noe av det arbeidet de kan i Vista som de kan gjøre på andre plattformer også.

[TorsteinP]

Den artikkelen er jo bare tøvprat. Har aldri hatt noe problem med å installere noen program.

 

Det eneste du ikke får lov å installere, er drivere som ikke er signert. Dette er på grunn av risiko for at virus og annet grums kan få tilgang til os-kjernen. Ser ikke noe problem med det.

 

Bortset fra kravet om signerte drivere er det ingen forskjell på hva du kan installer i Vista i forhold til XP.

 

Jeg skjønner ikke denne hylingen om DRM. Det er jo bare å la være å kjøpe DRM beskyttet innhold. Og liker du ikke Windows Media Player, er det bare å bruke noe annet. Jeg bruker selv J.River Media Center. Mye bedre enn den som følger med i Vista.

[TCi]

Det eneste du ikke får lov å installere, er drivere som ikke er signert. Dette er på grunn av risiko for at virus og annet grums kan få tilgang til os-kjernen. Ser ikke noe problem med det.

Gjelder også bare 64 bit.

[GeirGrusom]

Synes egentlig at det er litt teit at man må hindre brukeren i å installere visse ting, men når jeg ser rundt omkring på PC-ene til folk, og threads i windows kategorien, forstår jeg dessverre hvorfor

 

Fjernet to trojanere på PC-en til en venn her om dagen, og en drøss fra en laptop... jeg forstår ikke hvorfor folk er så utsatt for virus... sunn fornuft er visst for mye å forlange når folk skal sette seg foran en PC.

[TCi]

Fjernet to trojanere på PC-en til en venn her om dagen, og en drøss fra en laptop... jeg forstår ikke hvorfor folk er så utsatt for virus... sunn fornuft er visst for mye å forlange når folk skal sette seg foran en PC.

Det er fordi folk er for godtroende. Virker som de tror internett er det samme som nabolaget. Bør være opplæring for å koble seg opp mot nettet. Lære de å være mer paranoid. Gjerne også å bruke hodet litt mer også.

[Moderat Bruker]

Ogsaa enige med flertallet her.

Artikkelforfatter skyggemaler noe helt for jaev....

Ikke noen pro bruker men har kjoert Premium Home ca en maaned naa og er storveies fornoeyd!

 

Noen som er enig i uttalelesen jeg saa i en engelsspraakelig avis her om dagen?

"Vista vil forbigaas i stillhet - Like populaert og nyttig som Windows ME"

 

MPR