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[A very nice overview. --Declan]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Peter Gutmann writing about the Vista Content Protection 
specification
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:08:02 -0500
From: Doug Carroll
To: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>

Declan, the link is about Vista as a DRM platform. Please read it.

Quoted from the article:
"The Vista Content Protection specification could very well
  constitute the longest suicide note in history".

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

(please hide my email if forwarded..)

-- Doug Carroll

Posted by Declan McCullagh on Jan 25, 2007 in category intellectual-property

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