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Music Industry Forcing WMA standard?

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. What would be involved in breaking wma? by smartin · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Is this rely hard? Has it already been done?

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  2. why not a standard?? by turbine216 · · Score: 4, Redundant
    why not use a NON-proprietary standard instead of MP3 or WMA???? Why does everything have to be so controlled and so restrictive? They've obviously got a decent idea here (putting compressed digital copies of the CDDA tracks on the same disc as the music), but they've got their heads up their asses in the implementation.


    The RIAA managed to accept and OPEN standard known as Red Book for production of CD's...why can't they just create another OPEN standard for digital music for use on PC's and portables?


    (All rhetorical questions, naturally...everyone knows why they aren't doing it...)