Comments on: Vista’s content protection caught in real life

By: CynicalDreamer

CynicalDreamer — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:48:30 +0000

There is no such thing as “Vista build-in copy protection”. It’s just a driver issue!!!

By: mike hall

mike hall — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:12:13 +0000

Yeah, but this wasn’t a shutdown. My computer was up and running normally except that one of the monitors was black and white. To me this totally sounds like the degradation of content that is talked about in the Vista content protection docs.

By: that_guy

that_guy — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:25:39 +0000

You know, XP will do the very same thing if you don’t click the ’shut down’ or ‘log off’ button right off… Im not sure about a multimonitor setup, its been a while since ive used one… So to andrej, sorry, its not DRM or the like…

By: Jake Robinson

Jake Robinson — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:43:46 +0000

Interesting. We had the same issue with a laptop and it turned out to be an ATI driver issue. It was only on the main screen, not the extended desktop.

By: Andrej

Andrej — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:45:45 +0000

Damn this DRM crap from RIAA/MPAA integrated into Vista. Just one more reason why I will never use the terrible Vista. Two weeks of nightmare while trying it out were more then enough for me. Back to Windows XP and on to Linux for me.