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Windows = Antivirus = Pollution?

I just read an article by the University of Calgary where the author claims (and I think he's correct) that IT is a huge pollutant. For example, we have hardware that becomes obsolete, we have to produce electricity to pump into our gadgets, etc.

Not long ago I read another article where it's calculated (or so they say) how much pollution is produced by each search on google.

But, man.... I just couldn't resist the temptation of asking myself "... then how much power is spent on Windows implementing DRM protection mechanisms?".
It has been disputed that it be a lot of energy to implement DRM
mechanisms. It has been argued that this is not too much of an
effort... that DRM in Vista is rougly a couple of LOC on the whole
system. I just couldn't care less about it.. but then the next even more obvious question was "then how much pollution is produced by the usage of antivirus?".

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