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Microsoft's PlayReady will Play for Sure

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

sigma writes:

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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2015, @12:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 26 2015, @12:43PM (#175334)

    It's time for SN to show to modded a comment.

    We should get to know which dumbass here incorrectly marked down that perfectly good comment to -1, Troll.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @04:08AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @04:08AM (#175577)

    We should get to know which dumbass here incorrectly marked down that perfectly good comment to -1, Troll.

    Only if we know who the dimplass who posted the perfectly good troll post as an AC was. Do you really want to go there, punk? Huh, do ya?
    (and of course, I am a different AC that the parent AC, and I did mod the parent as "whinge".)