[BNM] disabling Vista DRM

[Chris Billett]

Cheers, that's a start. I am not troubled enough by the issue to do it,
but it's good to know. Re: all the sarcastic comments in the other
replies...  as much as they made me laugh, perhaps more useful for a tech.
list would have been some though and research:

Vista DRM details:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/28/vista_drm_analysis/

Bypassing some of it:
http://www.alex-ionescu.com/?p=24

Two minutes googling. Not going to try it, as I don't care, and besides
we're all obviously to cool to use Windows. :)

CB

> On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 14:33:32 +0100 (BST), "Chris Billett"
> <chris at chrisbillett.net> said:
>
>> That might actually be the cause of my one major annoyance - when
>> using iTunes, the computer flips out and hangs occasionally. I hadn't
>> thought much of it as I use my CD player more. Call me old
>> fashioned...
>
>> Any way to turn DRM off, that anyone knows?
>
> I don't think it's a DRM issue.  It's more fundamental than that.  In
> an attempt to avoid playback glitches Vista throttles back network
> activity when you play music and movies.
>
> Very geeky explanation here:
> http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2007/08/27/1833290.aspx
> Commentary here:
> http://blog.rlove.org/2007/08/those-dang-dpcs-clogging-mmcss.html
>
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