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Copyright Insanity

Doyle Hudgens gave me that headline as the subject of his email tonight, in which he wrote about his experience with Windows Vista:

I recently purchased a Compaq Presario notebook with Vista Home Premium installed. One of the first things I tried to do was create the restore CD/DVD since no one supplies these any more. The creation went just fine until verify. At this point I was informed on the screen that verification failed. I tried different suppliers of both CD and DVD with same result. I contacted HP support. When I explained the error, I was then told the problem was due to a copyright conflict in Vista that prevented the copy from being created. Is this freakin’ insane or what?

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