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Music Industry Forcing WMA standard?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 1, 2001 @05:26AM from the why-doesn't-this-surprise-me dept.

CtrlPhreak writes "Cnet news.com has a story up stating that the music industry is considering having cds that contain the un-rippable tracks as well as the windows media formatted files with limited uses ala Microsoft's digital rights management. Just one more brick in Microsoft's continuing monopoly..." And another format that I can't play back. Hope this one dies fast.

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Who'da thunk it? by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-01 05:29 · Score: 2, Flamebait

Computer users show themselves unwilling and unable to comply with existing copyright laws, is it really any big surprise that the copyright holders would find a surer method of protecting their IP?

Information only 'wants' to be free insofar as its creator wants it to be free.
1. Re:Who'da thunk it? by Snootch · 2001-10-01 05:31 · Score: 1, Flamebait
  
  Information only 'wants' to be free insofar as its creator wants it to be free.
  
  It also only "wants" to have fair-use rights as much as a certain piece of copyright law wants it to, but would they listen to the voice of the law? Nah, we have lawyers, why do we need to?