[Leaplist] Reason #41525 to not "trust" microsoft products

[Chris]

Steve Litt wrote:

>On Monday 19 May 2008 09:23, Damien McKenna wrote:
>  
>
>>In 2005 the courts struck down the FCC's intentions to allow
>>broadcasters to decide whether home users would be allowed to record
>>TV shows off the air, the so-called "broadcast flag".  Despite this,
>>Microsoft has gone ahead anyway and implemented this ability in
>>Windows Media Center:
>>http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9946780-7.html?tag=nefd.riv
>>    
>>
>
>Hi Damien,
>
>I was hoping what you meant was M$ put in the *hooks* to honor the broadcast 
>flag, just in case things changed later. That would simply be good design and 
>coding practices.
>
>But it looks to me like Microsoft actually honors it, with no way of shutting 
>it off if the user doesn't want it.
>
>Just one more reason I don't run Microsoft.
>
>SteveT
>  
>
In a world where the fattest pigs at the corporate media trough
have grand visions of users owning no content, but simply leasing
it play by play, content control is being pushed hard in our devices
and software.

But there's a tin-foil-hat side to this equation. When all of our
content is managed, filtered, and reported - how long until
governments use that technology to lock us down completely?

I don't believe this vote can be won at the ballot-box. The only
vote that counts is our dollars. Boycott, boycott, boycott.

Cheers,

Chris