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So answer the question, I was one of the quoted

f PowerDVD supplied the complete end to end protected pipe, then why did MS add it into the OS?

You will also note that I put a ? mark at the end of the statement. If PowerDVD supplies all the DRM, and Vista doesn't actually do anything, doesn't that make all the Vista DRM useless? That is a serious question. If, using PowerDVD eliminates the need for the complete end to end secure pipe, etc, doesn't that make gaining access to the content quite easy?

As I noted following that...

See, if Vista is doing nothing, and PowerDVD is doing it all, that makes all the DRM in Vista absolutely useless, bypass the app's protections and then do what you want.

Isn't the purpose of the DRM to protect the content? If it truly is as flimsy as the above, and quoting myself again,

On a side note, can you really play full 1080p on XP? Do you need an HDCP monitor or not? If you can, then I can only chuckle at all the vista DRM effort.

If my last statement is true, then I completely stand by the new assertion that the DRM is NOT to protect any content whatsoever, if anyone with XP and an HD drive can just pipe the 1080p to whatever they want, all the protection is beyond useless. Does such a hole really exist? It makes DRM about nothing more than hardware churn. Why is a powerful enough video card allowed to play unprotected 1080p over VGA suddenly obsolete in Vista.

Again, I will ask, and honestly looking for clarification, what is the DRM in Vista doing when an app that supplies their "own" DRM causes Vista to do nothing to protect the content? I do hope that the DRM is as flimsy as all the above, and what you proved by playing 1080p in XP (OK, 720p, but I agree, no reason to think 1080 wouldn't work) because a Linux player will be trivial to craft to beat the AACS DRM that really doesn't exist.

TripleII

P.S. I hope you can forgive me for assuming that the new DRM subsytem to ensure protected content in Vista might actually be used in tandem with the player, if I am wrong, I apologize, and as I said, it will make for fair use workarounds quite easily.

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