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How Vista Lets Microsoft Lock Users In
"Technology called "Information Rights Management," combined with
copyright law and Windows Vista, give Microsoft the tools to hold users'
data hostage in Office, says Cory Doctorow."
By Cory Doctorow 
InformationWeek  

Dec 5, 2006 08:19 PM

What if you could rig it so that competing with your flagship product
was against the law? Under 1998's Digital Millennium Copyright Act,
breaking an anti-copying system is illegal, even if you're breaking it
for a legal reason. For example, it's against the law to compete head-on
with the iPod by making a device that plays Apple's proprietary music,
or by making an iPod add-on that plays your own proprietary music. Nice
deal for Apple.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196601781