MS Extorting Users With Media Player Security Patch

In an article on BSD Vault a careful reader posts that in the latest Windows Media Player security patch, the EULA (the “license agreement” you click on) says that you give Microsoft the right to install digital rights management software, and the right to disable any other programs which may circumvent DRM on your computer. So if you want your machine secure, you also want Microsoft to have free reign on your PC. Extortion?


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| Posted on June 30, 2002 at 1:51 am in Uncategorized

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