when people talk about DRM, why does no one ever bring up the activation process and licence code palava that is Microsoft Windows, i’m home for the week - not only does the pc (used less and less these days for work, more for games and defraging / gathering dust) get a virus, which 24 hours on is getting to the point of “ah, lets re-install”, it also required me, for the THIRD time, PROVE to microsoft that we own the license.
1. proved that we owned the software during installation “Product Key”
2. by Activation, on the phone as I recall - where I had to tell someone that “yes, we’ve had to reformat the computer because Windows got a virus, or something” - they couldn’t help with that of course… just making sure I wasn’t selling ‘their’ software to anyone.
3. (this weekend) when i tried to do a software update… i know i’m months late - but wtf; enter another code, phone them- again!
so, yeah- DRM; see microsoft. OS X does not require activation or any phone calling, nor do the updates require me to punch in a 40 digit code to prove my worthyness. i hate iTunes DRM as much as the next informed user, I understand it to: both how to get around it and why it IS nessasary (for iTMS to exist, at least). i think the lack of DRM on the Apple OS / Hardware throws this post off.
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