I knew I knew I knew it. I had bet a co-worker a week ago that Microsoft was getting in bed with Recording Industry and a host of other Corporate giants to restrict what you were going to be able to do with your computer in the future.
Turns out that the latest security enhancements for Windows Media Player had a interesting new paragraph to the license agreement. Better hold onto your seat while you read this.
“You agree that in order to protect the integrity of content and software protected by digital rights management (‘Secure Content’), Microsoft may provide security related updates to the OS Components that will be automatically downloaded onto your computer. These security related updates may disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and use other software on your computer. If we provide such a security update, we will use reasonable efforts to post notices on a web site explaining the update.”
“Reasonable efforts to post notices” somewhere on the Web. I think it’s clear from the wording that MS has absolutely no intention of bringing this behavior to our attention”.
If this surprises you I think you need to realize that we are now at a point that within 5 years we will give up control of our desktop and be forcefully fed what they want us to see and do. This is another example of what is wrong in today’s digital society. Better wake up people. [Source The Register]