Back in July Marc posted about the inclusion of display-based DRM in Vista, or "Longhorn" as it was called way back then. Just over the weekend, however, I found even more information on DRM technologies that Hollywood themselves are dictating be built not only into Vista but the next generation hardware that it's going to run on. Check out the Microsoft document (2 MB doc) detailing new functionality such as the "High Bandwidth Cipher", a hardware-based encryption method that will encrypt, decrypt, and re-encrypt video as it passes back and forth over a PC's bus as many as 10 processor-crippling times.. all in Hollywood's quest to ensure the safety of its content.

I have to be honest boys and girls: news like this is starting to make me feel a little queasy. Am I the only one who's paranoid over an impending storm of DRM policing? Feel free to sound off.

[via Daring Fireball]