Kevin Street wrote:
Could we be witnessing the Hindenburg-style crash n' burn of the DRM meme in
real time? It's hard to believe any consumers would just placidly accept the
installation of DRM software on their machines after this.
I'd like to think that, but while the message is big news among the tech
crowd, the consumer masses out there don't understand the concept of
DRM, Trojan Horse etc - they just want to go to Wal-mart, buy a CD and
play it on their shiny new media centre PC.
Assuming the process involves someone clicking a "Yes" button at some
point on the PC, there is no legal case against them (you consented...)
and the vast majoirty of people out there will just assume that a
company as big as Sony would never help the hackers of this world...
As Media Centre systems get installed in big numbers this holiday
season, the potential for hackers is almost unlimited, because the
people who don't know/don't care are the same people who don't patch and
don't firewall...
Cheers
Russell C.
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