[Thinkpad] Digital Rights Management (was Win 2000 question)

As you sound like you're more familiar with the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act than I, wold you please clarify for me some of the information in your
post? Specifically:

1. Which portion of the DMCA requires Microsoft to carry out digital rights
management? My search of the DMCA turns up no reference whatsoever to
"operating system"or even "software", and "sold" is used only with regard to
video cassette recording machines and copyright protection of useful
articles from knockoff marketing.

2. Does Microsoft "sell" any operating systems at all? I was under the
distinct impression that MS vehemently insists that all merely licenses its
operating systems for very limited use, that no ownership rights are ever
conveyed.

3. Who's "compliance is mandatory by 2004/5" for Linux?

4. How did you determine that Microsoft is "supposed to take...just the
current versions of any operational software on your system"?

Enquiring minds want to know!

Deanna
dberman@4dv.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Mckenzie" <jjmckenzie51@earthlink.net>
To: <James@thinkpads.com>; <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 22:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Win 2000 question

> This may come as a major suprise to everyone out here, but this is
> coming to:
>
> All versions of Windows supported by Microsoft,
> and Linux. The Digital Millenium Act requires this for all operating
> systems "sold" in the United States. DCM compliance is mandatory by
> 2004/5. Microsoft is just following the law.
>
> BTW, Microsoft is NOT supposed to take the contents of your hard drive
> (as reported by others in the news/press) just the current versions of
> any operational software on your system. There is a 'hack' out there
> that disables WindowsXP reporting, but this breaks the EULA for
> WindowsXP and thus makes your system 'unsupported' by both the support
> company (in this case IBM) and Microsoft.
>
> I don't have a problem with Microsoft enforcing the law as written
> (blame Congress for this mess up). I do have a problem with them
> releasing this information to third parties.
>
> James McKenzie
>
>
> James H. E. Maugham wrote:
>
> >Julian Thomas wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Does SP3 introduce the hateful license agreement that sells your soul
and
> >>hard drive to Microsloth?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Oh yeah! http://www.infoworld.com/article/02/08/23/020826opwinman_1.html
> >
> >Along with all of the other sins of XP,
> >http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/14/11winman_1.html and
> >http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/03/28/13winman_1.html as a start.
Much more
> >available in a Google search, although just reviewing Brian's columns is
enough
> >to get any thinking person upset.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >James

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