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Everything you’ve read about Vista DRM is wrong (Part 1) by ZDNet 's Ed Bott -- Self-described "professional paranoid" Peter Gutmann of the University of Auckland has become the most widely quoted source of information on DRM and content protection in Windows Vista. The trouble is, Gutmann's work is riddled with factual errors, distortions, contradictions, and outright untruths, and his conclusions are equally wrong. In this three-part series, I'll show you why Gutmann's outrageous and inflamatory arguments don't stand up to close scrutiny.

Fair use is not a consumer right | Perspectives | CNET News.com http://news.com.com/2010-1030-6205977.html?tag=tb I'll Start with a quote from the article: Still others, including some uses within the home, may not be specifically designated fair use by a court, and may or may not qualify if put to the test, but are generally not the subject of legal challenges by a copyright owner. Mr. Ross is saying in this one sentence that: 1. Watch what you do in your home we are watching you! 2. There is no way to know if you have a right to anything unless you get sued. Because as he said earlier there is no affirmative right. 3. Just because people have not historically generally been sued for what they do int their homes doesn't mean we won't come after you now. Wow! I make a living in the the publishing industry and believe strongly in copyright but this is absurd, belligerent and threatening. And Ok it is a response to a lawsuit so maybe that is why it is so bellicose in tone. ...