Here’s part two of my reading of Peter Gutmann’s “A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection,” an amazing paper on DRM that was first published in late 2006.
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Here’s my reading of Peter Gutmann’s “A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection,” an amazing paper on DRM that was first published in late 2006.
Executive Summary
Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”, typically HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost. These issues affect not only users of Vista but the entire PC industry, since 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 (for example hardware in a Macintosh computer or on a Linux server). This document analyses the cost involved in Vista’s content protection, and the collateral damage that this incurs throughout the computer industry.
The USC Center for Public Diplomacy blog has a post on the EFF Pioneer Awards last night, including the audio from the talk.
Here’s part 11 — chapters 27-31 — of the reading of my novel Eastern Standard Tribe. This concludes the reading
I recorded an interview with Lance Weiler on the This Conference is Being Recorded podcast — we talk about creativity, authorship and Creative Commons.
Here’s part 10 — chapters 24-26 — of the reading of my novel Eastern Standard Tribe.
IanIv from Blogaholics attended my talk on privacy in Vancouver last night and made an audio recording — he’s put it online already. Thanks, Ian!
Update: Alex from EcoShock recorded the talk the next day too
Here’s part 9 — chapters 22-23 — of the reading of my novel Eastern Standard Tribe.
I did an interview with KRUU FM’s Sundar Raman about free software, DRM and sf:
The site went down — here are some mirrors:
The British sf podcast “Yatterings” (produced by Iain Elmsley, proprietor of the brilliant Aust Gate bookseller) has a new interview up with me about sf writing and how it relates to the future.
