MS Patent for DRM OS

[Charles Lindsey]

	On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:16:48 -0800
	John Young <jya@pipeline.com> said...

> 
> Microsoft's patent for a Digital Rights Management
> Operating System was awarded yesterday:
> 
>   http://cryptome.org/ms-drm-os.htm
> 
> Abstract
> 
[Horrendous nightmare snipped]

And when your system screws up in an inconsistent state, with valuable
data still encrypted, and it won't let you run any programs whether
related to the mess or not, what do you do?

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