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Link to Peter Gutman's article
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<ahref="http://www.w3c.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">Peter Gutman's brilliant, entertaining exposé of Vista's content protection schemes..

or

http://www.w3c.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd

if I shanked it again.

also, this passage was incorrectly rendered above:

"Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content"...incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost ... the effects of the protection measures extend to cover all hardware and software that will ever come into contact with Vista, even if it's not used directly with Vista...

...

"However, one important point to keep in mind ... is that in order to work, Vista's content protection must be able to violate the laws of physics, something that's unlikely to happen no matter how much the content industry wishes that it were possible."

--Peter Gutman

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