[hblug] [OT] Vista Fun

[chris morris]

Daniel Faulknor wrote:
> As people may remember, at the last meeting we were talking about 
> people getting locked out of their (vista) computers when vista 
> detects that they are doing something illegal.
> I have just proved that this is true.  Imaged my windows xp cd to my 
> hard drive, and hey presto! a locked up system (even numlock/capslock 
> etc had frozen) only fix was to reboot my system.
>
> Now if that isn't an invasion of privacy, i don't know what is.
>
> Apart from the glaringly obvious DRM/anti-piracy things, vista is no 
> worse (i wont say its better, though it probably is in some aspects) 
> than windows xp. Aero is pretty cool, not that it couldn't be done 
> with linux.
>
> Daniel
>
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M$ are going to alienate a lot of their existing customers - which can 
only be good for Linux ( and Mac )
They are effectively branding you a criminal without proof that you've 
done anything illegal. In their eyes you "might" be doing something 
illegal so we'll step in and stop you.
It would be interesting to see if it would let you ISO a CD or DVD of 
other material ( home movies or personal data)  - or does it just forbid 
making ISO's of any kind?
I've been told it wont let you install any p2p software either ( even 
though there are non- illegal uses for p2p software )
Care to try it Dan and let us know?

cheers
chris