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In late 2006, security expert [[Peter Gutmann (computer scientist)|Peter Gutmann]] released "''A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection''", a technical paper criticizing the implementation of various content protection technologies in [[Windows Vista]].<ref name=vista-cost>{{cite paper

| author = [[Peter Gutmann (computer scientist)|Peter Gutmann]]

| date = 2006-12-26

| title = A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

| url = http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

| accessdate = 2007-01-28 }}</ref>

| authorlink = Peter Gutmann (computer scientist) }}</ref>

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Providing this protection incurs considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability, technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost. These issues affect not only users of Vista but the entire PC industry, since the effects of the protection measures extend to cover all hardware and software that will ever come into contact with Vista, even if it's not used directly with Vista (for example hardware in a Macintosh computer or on a Linux server).