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Virtualization technology means that a pirate can encapsulate a clean, pristine version of Windows into a VM and then make as many copies of it as he or she wants.

Today, most VM technologies pass through unique identifying attributes of the underlying hardware to the virtual machine. So, today, a movement of a VM from one system to another will very likely trigger Microsoft's anti-piracy software into action. But, my guess is that tomorrow, especially given the open source nature of certain VM technologies like Xen, those sort of system sensitivities will be ameliorated in some abstracting layer of virtualization technologies. In fact, to realize the benefits of virtualization technology, it has to be this way.

So, VMs are or will be a technological loophole to all the hard work that Microsoft is putting into protecting its intellectual property IP -- a loophole that the software giant probably isn't sure what to do about. In other words, there's no easy technological answer. Short of technologicial answers to IP protection, the only choice for a vendor to fall back on is to encode "protection" into its license agreements. Do you need further evidence of the wrestling match that lies ahead when it comes to Microsoft and virtualization?

Granneman points to that as well. As it turns out, you are allowed to use virtualization technologies with the more expensive versions of Windows Vista like Windows Vista Ultimate draw your own conclusions as to why. But, judging by the following clause, even that poses problems for Microsoft:. For starters, note the restriction on "licensed device. But, based on the language discussed earlier, this was almost to be expected. What comes next has one of Microsoft's fears in my opinion written all over it.

Microsoft is the purveyor of digital rights management DRM technologies. In its most common usage today, DRM is copy protection technology that's designed to prevent the piracy of copyrighted content like music and video. In terms of computers as opposed to portable playback devices like Apple's iPod or Microsoft's soon-to-be released Zune , DRM is what prevents content from being played back or viewed on anything but the right software eg: Windows Media Player or iTunes on "authorized" systems.

But, once an entire system can be virtualized into copyable files the way they can with commonly available virtualization technologies, then Microsoft has a new problem. That's because instead of distributing illegal copies of the actual content like what was done with Bittorrent or Napster , pirates can simply distribute entire collections of content inside of freely copyable "pre-authorized" VMs. Five years from now, PCs will be powerful enough to support hundreds if not thousands of VMs which means from the pirate's point of view, a VM could easily contain one album, one playlist, or even one song.

The net result is a complete end-run around all that DRM, as we know it today, has to offer. The reason this is a senstive situation for Microsoft as well as any other purveyor of DRM technology is that an entire business strategy -- one that involves promises of protection to the entertainment confab -- falls apart if it can't guarantee that protection.

So, for now, at the very least, one way to try to guarantee it is to erect legal barriers to using "copy" technology like virtualization with supposedly uncopyable content. Next up, I'll do a ,foot take on the complex technological and legal labyrinth that's being woven here. Developers are in short supply. Here are the skills and programming languages employers need. Time for a Linux smartphone? The painful shame of owning an Android phone.

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