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W2k Rights Management Update

  • 18-09-2003 08:07AM
    #1
    dod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 801 ✭✭✭


    This was on the W2k Windows Update list this morning

    Rights Management Client Update

    I am inclined not to run this update, I can't see any upside in the install, but I can imagine potential downsides as in the policing of various copyright material that I may or may not choose to have on my hard drive.

    Am I being over-paranoid, or am I missing out on the purpose of this update? Is there an upside that I am missing out on?


Comments

  • #2
    BigEejit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,738 ✭✭✭BigEejit


    I would tend to agree with you ... I do not think that installing software that is designed to stop you copying what you want on your own computer is a step in the right direction ....
    [rant]
    [big breath]
    stupid corrupt money grubbing american politicians obviously in the pockets of large corporations enacting idiotic laws that stop fair use by their own constituents and help no-one except the big music and movie publishing houses and then trying to
    [going a bit blue in the face]
    take everyone else in the world who circumvents these stupid pretections in their own countries to court in america and luckily enough not getting very far
    [purple face now, bulging eyes]
    and then taking a 12 year old girl to court for file swapping miserable fsckers that they are they should be taken out and shot with a ball of their own sh.it
    [/big breath]
    [/going a bit blue in the face]
    [/purple face now, bulging eyes]
    [/rant]


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