twitter's Journal: Vista "protects" you from the HD Movies YOU MAKE.

Incredible but true. Peter Gutmann, of suicide note fame, details more Vista DRM problems at USENIX:

Vista automatically degrades so-called "premium" content such as high definition movies and audio tracks when they are output to less than bleeding-edge new devices that don't happen to support Intel's High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) DRM scheme. It apparently does this even if the media files being played are not copyright protected commercial media but the users' own home movies or music they've recorded in high-definition format.

He goes on to detail the havoc caused to PC makers like Dell and Gateway and how a new need for Hollywood driver permission has pushed the cost of components up for everyone.

Wrong, FUDster

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Since the content does not have copy protection bits, this will not happen with your movies, unless for some reason your camcorder is adding DRM to Petey's birthday party. The content is the thing that specifies that the stupid "trusted path" thing needs to be used, and Vista complies. It's not the fact that it's HD or something else.

Maybe you should stop lapping up everything the Reg and the Enquirer publish. You know, just to avoid looking dumb.