Windows Vista is crippled by design, according to security researcher Peter Gutmann.
Gutmann’s paper, A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection, has caused quite a bit of a stir since first The Inquirer and later Slashdot picked it up.
A choice quote, from the Executive Executive Summary(sic):
The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the
longest [...]
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