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Music Industry Forcing WMA standard?
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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Only listen to white noise, stop enriching those pigs.
Je t'aime Stéphanie
Every day we lose more and more rights... A little here, a little there. Though, I doubt if they can stop me from taking my audio out and recording that... Oh wait, they'll just make sure new sound cards and stereos no longer have audio out, and the ones that do, cd's wont play on.
Sums it up pretty good for me.
These guys are simply criminal. send them to afghanistan for re-education
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
What about CSS? Are you calling CSS a bad idea? You little...!
If you must have music, there's always midi!
And hey, isn't the fun of MP3 the fact that you can get the 5-10 minutes worth of music in the 78, 74, or 55 minutes on the CD that's actually worth listening to? ;-)
Hey, there had to be some benefit!
sulli
RTFJ.
the story wasn't copy-protected, so it was copied and replayed
sulli
RTFJ.
You are hereby requested to cease and desist using the acronym WMA, as it is not compliant with Microsoft® Corporation's current legal trademark notation. The new acronym shall henceforth be referred to as MRWMTMA, for Microsoft® Windows Media(TM) Audio format.
Thank you. All your base are belong to us.
Microsoft=Monopoly
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
*WMA is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *WMA community when last month IDC confirmed that *WMA accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *WMA has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *WMA is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *WMA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *WMA faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *WMA because *WMA is dying. Things are looking very bad for *WMA. As many of us are already aware, *WMA continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeWMA is the most endangered of them all.
Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeWMA went out of business and was taken over by APPLE who sell another troubled OS. Now APPLE is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *WMA has steadily declined in market share. *WMA is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *WMA is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *WMA continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *WMA is dead.
*WMA is dying
I think the competing NoAudio standard well be more effective in controlling pirates than this scheme.
There is nothing wrong with 'Cascading Style Sheets' I use em all the time... (Although I don't know what programmers have to do with them.)
Do a google search before posting.
Yep.
And those bastards who make the vending machines are up to these tricks too.
Damn them! I want that candy bar for free!
You really think John "You Have No Rights, Get Over It" Ashcroft will do anything to promote consumer choice?
sulli
RTFJ.
You're going to put your business model up against the collective intellect of every computer programmer who likes music...
(Apologies to Scott Adams)