The war has begun
Its been quite sometime since Microsoft and a host of other software biggies have been trying to curb piracy.Infact the whole entertainment industry has been opposing Piracy since quite some time there are a few people like Bryan Adams who have agreed that piracy is a way of life.
Piracy has a good and a bad part to it.The good part being ever since piracy has been spreading like a wild part to all the parts of the world,The customer is a given a choice to choose what he wants rather than being forced to take whatever he gets.earlier if u liked one song in an album u had to buy the whole album or movie cassette to listen to it.But now if u like a given album u can just get it from a pirated CD vendor and listen to it as much as u want for less half the price u have to pay for a legal copy of the same thing.Infact peer to peer networks though they are not exactly pirated stuff enable a user to get music,videos and softwares and a large no of other media for no cost at all.Imagine getting microsoft authentic software like windows media player 11,Internet explorer 7 without validating ur copy of windows. or geting ur windows authenticated without paying for it.Piracy in a way or two does provide employment to many people and it provides them with a source to earn money.Due to piracy a large no of people can see and experience a large variety of media.Earlier we could watch only a limited no of films but now due to piracy we can watch for movies with DVD quality video for the price of one in a multiplex.
And at the same time piracy is bad because its is affecting the legal rights of the people who produce the media severely,Several record companies are having losses in billions of dollars.
The only way piracy can be curbed is by getting the prices of authentic legal media to be more or less equal to the price of the pirated media.that would help considerably but that needs to be done simultaneously with the launch of the media.If it is done after a substantial amount of time has passed after the launch the given media then the value of media would depreciate considerably.this is because the pirated version of any given media hits the market as soon as the media is launched the market or sometimes it is launched even before the media is launched.this way of curbing piracy has been adopted by Optical media giant Moser Baer.
Piracy has its affiliation with viruses,many pirated products as much as 50%or may be even more have viruses on them .So Microsoft wanted to fight both of them that led to the dvelpment of the Frtiz chip.
Fritz chip the latest tool on piracy.
Microsoft has recently formed a group of software and hardware who will or are willing to be a part or rather an ally in its war against piracy and viruses.This group has all biggies in the world od IT and electronics.Companies like Dell,HP and many other are a part of this group.To be a partof this group a certain sum approximately 7500$ has to be paid.This is not good for open source and freelance software developers because 7500$ is big money and many small time software developers may not be able to afford it.
The friz chip is a chip which will be embedded in the motherboard of PCs or in the main circuit board of any electronic item manufactured by Microsoft's allies.This chip would have the detailed information of the the systems hardware and the softwares installed in it legally.From this data the chip will generate a code which might be an alpha numeric code.this code will be used to cross check the machines compatibility with any software which might have to be installed in it.If a software has to be installed its requirements[in a coded form ]will be compared with the code stored in the fritz chip,if they do not match the software simply wont work.Microsoft may have collected a large amount of data about the individual machines of their users,by the error reports that they recieve in the event of a program not working.just imagine buying a pc and not being able to install the things u want in it.
As the old chinese symbolism of a black spot in white surroundings and a white spot in black surroundings explaines if this move is bad it will have something good to it.Or even if the move is good it will have something bad to it.And hackers will definately not give up without a fight.I hope and pray that something in everyones consideration comes out as a result of this fight for supremacy.
Piracy has a good and a bad part to it.The good part being ever since piracy has been spreading like a wild part to all the parts of the world,The customer is a given a choice to choose what he wants rather than being forced to take whatever he gets.earlier if u liked one song in an album u had to buy the whole album or movie cassette to listen to it.But now if u like a given album u can just get it from a pirated CD vendor and listen to it as much as u want for less half the price u have to pay for a legal copy of the same thing.Infact peer to peer networks though they are not exactly pirated stuff enable a user to get music,videos and softwares and a large no of other media for no cost at all.Imagine getting microsoft authentic software like windows media player 11,Internet explorer 7 without validating ur copy of windows. or geting ur windows authenticated without paying for it.Piracy in a way or two does provide employment to many people and it provides them with a source to earn money.Due to piracy a large no of people can see and experience a large variety of media.Earlier we could watch only a limited no of films but now due to piracy we can watch for movies with DVD quality video for the price of one in a multiplex.
And at the same time piracy is bad because its is affecting the legal rights of the people who produce the media severely,Several record companies are having losses in billions of dollars.
The only way piracy can be curbed is by getting the prices of authentic legal media to be more or less equal to the price of the pirated media.that would help considerably but that needs to be done simultaneously with the launch of the media.If it is done after a substantial amount of time has passed after the launch the given media then the value of media would depreciate considerably.this is because the pirated version of any given media hits the market as soon as the media is launched the market or sometimes it is launched even before the media is launched.this way of curbing piracy has been adopted by Optical media giant Moser Baer.
Piracy has its affiliation with viruses,many pirated products as much as 50%or may be even more have viruses on them .So Microsoft wanted to fight both of them that led to the dvelpment of the Frtiz chip.
Fritz chip the latest tool on piracy.
Microsoft has recently formed a group of software and hardware who will or are willing to be a part or rather an ally in its war against piracy and viruses.This group has all biggies in the world od IT and electronics.Companies like Dell,HP and many other are a part of this group.To be a partof this group a certain sum approximately 7500$ has to be paid.This is not good for open source and freelance software developers because 7500$ is big money and many small time software developers may not be able to afford it.
The friz chip is a chip which will be embedded in the motherboard of PCs or in the main circuit board of any electronic item manufactured by Microsoft's allies.This chip would have the detailed information of the the systems hardware and the softwares installed in it legally.From this data the chip will generate a code which might be an alpha numeric code.this code will be used to cross check the machines compatibility with any software which might have to be installed in it.If a software has to be installed its requirements[in a coded form ]will be compared with the code stored in the fritz chip,if they do not match the software simply wont work.Microsoft may have collected a large amount of data about the individual machines of their users,by the error reports that they recieve in the event of a program not working.just imagine buying a pc and not being able to install the things u want in it.
As the old chinese symbolism of a black spot in white surroundings and a white spot in black surroundings explaines if this move is bad it will have something good to it.Or even if the move is good it will have something bad to it.And hackers will definately not give up without a fight.I hope and pray that something in everyones consideration comes out as a result of this fight for supremacy.
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