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Basically, in Windows Vista, they are making everyone who may handle "premium content" (Aka, the graphics card, the motherboard, the sound card, the CD or DVD player, the monitor, the drivers, and the playback software) to include encryption software to encrypt said "premium content" when it is sent over a "user accessable bus" Which means if you want to play music that's on your hard drive, it must go through the bus that handles hard drives, but as you can access that (meaning you can stick wires onto the motherboard contacts and steal the signal), it must first be encrypted, before it gets to the processor, which un-encrypts it, and then encrypits it again, to be sent over the unscure PCI bus, which must then be un-encrypted by the sound card. And, all that software and hardware must be Vista DRM compliant.
To verify that the software and hardware is secure, every 30 miliseconds, Vista sends a signal to every device and driver to make sure that it still is a secure device or driver, if it is being used or not.
Basically it's like running a deep virus scan, all the time, that runs all your drivers, at the same time.
Oh, and if your using an unsecure driver or piece of software, there are two outcomes: The quality of the playback, be it music or video, gets degraded, so an HDDVD would only play at normal DVD quality (we hope, it may be worse, there are murmers of fuzzy images and audio, which I consider less than DVD quality). Or, Vista will just shut down the device or driver. Permanently, until you aquire another user licence.
Making your computer unuseable.
Which means, every part of your machine must be compliant with the Windows Vista DRM, even the monitor.
Sounds fun huh?
So my question is, will Halo 2 Vista be considered "premium content"?
If this is the case, then sorry guys, but we will have to wait a few more months to even start seeing computers that are fully compliant with the Vista DRM, as there is not one graphics card that is compliant out today.
Which means we will have to buy brand new computer systems in order to play H2V.
And thats if you only want to play H2V. Even if H2V isn't "premium content", how many of you intend on watching HDDVD's or Blu-Ray's from your computer? Or listening to music?
If the entertainment industry declares something as "premium content" guess what? Won't play unless you buy a new computer.
This is a Bungie issue and a H2V issue as unless Microsoft ditches this bull-blam!- DRM, I am not getting Vista, or H2V.
And I won't be getting any more Bungie products until they either ditch Microsoft for forcing this crap on us, or I find out that the Vista DRM isn't as -blam!- up as it appears to be.
And don't mention the degredation to gameplay having this DRM check runing in the background will do.
[Edited on 1/17/2007]