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.

Comments

One solution

[SpanishInquisition]

cat /dev/random > /dev/audio

Only listen to white noise, stop enriching those pigs.

Re:One solution

[tuffy]

If I listen to /dev/random long enough, eventually some piece of copyrighted music will result.

And then I'll get arrested for violating the DMCA.

:)

Re:One solution

[dattaway]

Its been mathematically proven also if you listen to /dev/random long enough you will be able to hear the Complete Works of William Shakespere in Dolby Surround Sound Stereo, and violating Dolby's patent in the process. Enjoy!

Re:One solution

[garett_spencley]

Yeah it's pretty much equivalent to buying a Britney Spears cd, except you don't have to pay for it.

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Garett

Re:One solution

[mansoft]

Oh, please, listen to opensource music:

cat /boot/vmlinuz > /dev/audio

DRM= Digital Rights Missing

[dafoomie]

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.

Toilets marketing

[Alien54]

I have a right to make personal copies and refuse to buy protected CDs," reader Steve Groen wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com. "If Hollywood had invented the toilet, it would be five times as expensive and you'd pay $1 every time you flush."

Sums it up pretty good for me.

These guys are simply criminal. send them to afghanistan for re-education

What about CSS?

[Macint0sh]

What about CSS? Are you calling CSS a bad idea? You little...!

Re:No more epic albums

[Tackhead]

> How many albums you know use the full 78 (wasn't it 74?) minutes?

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? ;-)

Re:No more epic albums

[sulli]

Hey, there had to be some benefit!

Re:This looks familar

[sulli]

the story wasn't copy-protected, so it was copied and replayed

*Ahem* that is MRWMTMA, not WMA.

[gosand]

Dear pawns,

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

Re:*Ahem* that is MRWMTMA, not WMA.

[fobbman]

"Thank you. All your base are belong to us."

...not to mention the midrange and whatever is left of the highs after compression hacks the hell out of them.

Competing standard

[briggsb]

I think the competing NoAudio standard well be more effective in controlling pirates than this scheme.

Re:WMA ....

[kaimiike1970]

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.)

Re:Could someone at the DOJ please look at this?

[sulli]

You really think John "You Have No Rights, Get Over It" Ashcroft will do anything to promote consumer choice?