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Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”.

Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system instability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost.

These issues affect not only users of Vista but the entire PC industry...This document analyses the cost involved in Vista's content protection, and the collateral damage that this incurs throughout the computer industry

Read Peter Gutmann's "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection" and learn of these tactics which will effectivly lock out the open PC architecture to all but the biggest industry players.