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Comment Re:The real issue here is... (Score 1) 330

by dr_light on Wednesday August 09, 2006 @06:01AM (#15872425) Attached to: The Ad-Supported Operating System

Thanks to the wonders of Trusted Computing hardware, if you change the code in any way... it may no longer run... it certainly won't be "trusted". It depends on how Microsoft decide to treat hacked versions, because *they* will control the hardware, not you.

Exactly. Already some of the advertisements on DVDs disable your ability to skip past them.

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