News for Wednesday, 31 December 2008

In the past, one will have hardly needed a fifteen or so days for the editors of AnyDVD software to crack the update of BD+ protection for Blu-ray. However, it appears to be a bit more robust than the preceding, which held out almost for a similar length of time.
Beyond the sulfurous side of the hacking and means set up to block them, the claims by the promoters of this supposed protection that it will unbreakable for years do not succeed, and each time become a little more ridiculous.
We are curious to know how much the consumers will have to pay, in total, so that the Major producers can impose protections which, in fact, do to nothing but complicate the life of the users, and are moreover, completely ineffective.

Since a long time in the trade, some have realized that the best means of gaining more money was not to sell, but to rent. Thus, the customer is never owner of that which he uses and must indefinitely continue to pay to have the use of it.
After having proposed X versions of Vista, Microsoft will try to apply this process to data processing.
The software publisher deposited a patent in which it describes a system in which the customer would pay for the software in function not only as time passes, but also according to its use. A "Metered Pay-As-You-Go Computing Experience".
There would be of them 3 levels, Office, Game and Internet Navigation.
For once, we are almost happy that they have decided to deposit a patent. It will slow down the other manufacturers who would like to launch out in this venture.
However, there is a general tendency towards which one is conveyed, whether one wants it or not. All those which produce contents want it to belongs to them, rather than the opposite.