How 4 Microsoft engineers proved copy protection would fail

[X'tyfe]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/how-four-microsoft-engineers-proved-copy-protection-would-fail/

Was forwarded this article, surprising this came out of Microsoft of all places

[reaper]

Since Microsoft is somewhat of a monopoly, you should create something like an information bill of rights.

This would cover doing things specifically that unfairly eliminate competition, like for some reason not to allow a firefox install on OEM machines, or to create an Operating System that will only work with a Microsoft application, with APIs only Microsoft has access to.
Not letting you play a video or song with open source encoding
a lack of an off key for some type of digital rights scheme

I agree though that you could just record a movie and put it on a usb drive no matter what Microsoft does, even things like tor would evolve.  you could change these things, but it'd be a massive undertaking beyond even Microsoft alone, and it probably still wouldn't be foolproof.