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posted by CoolHand on Sunday April 26 2015, @10:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the please-control-our-media-more dept.

In case you needed another reason to pirate movies, Microsoft is introducing a new hardware-based DRM scheme called PlayReady to lock down 4k content on Windows PCs. The user-restricting tool will only be available on Windows 10, ensuring users orphaned on earlier versions of the OS will need to upgrade to view the high-definition format.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2908089/all-about-playready-30-microsofts-secret-plan-to-lock-down-4k-movies-to-your-pc.html

From the article:

“Dad?! What’s going on? Why do we have to watch this movie in crappy standard-def?” The name of the movie might as well be Digital Rights Management: The New Nightmare. It stars Microsoft, who is working with chip vendors Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and Qualcomm to protect Hollywood’s movies from piracy as they travel through your PC. The technology it’s promoting is called PlayReady 3.0.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2015, @11:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2015, @11:49AM (#175322)

    Microsoft are not stupid; they know the truth of the matter; they know that DRM in the computer domain is a technical joke.
    All this is just a business game they are playing with the corporate world; Microsoft are a clever fisherman selling fresh fish to the corporate world.
    The end user is not the real target here.

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