http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html]Article

Don't pirate software? Think DRM won't really affect you? Think again.

The article, though being a cost analysis and rather long, sheds some light on how copy-protection will limit the capabilities of your computer hardware, often without prompting you or letting you in on the fact that your HD playback isn't HD at all, due to deals Microsoft has made with the RIAA and MPAA to protect their "premium content".

Basically, if you want to use your new Vista PC as a media center, and you stick that shiny new HD-DVD movie in the drive to play on your $2000 HDTV, the resulting playback is likely to look no better than it would on a TV you bought for $10 at a yard sale.

Why?

So any copies you make of the content on the disk will be of degraded resolution (if it plays at all) to dissuade people from pirating movies and music.

So the big question is, why is MS pushing the media center concept if their software is going to cripple the media you play from it?