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

Irrelevance

[virg_mattes]

Who cares who courted whom? The fact that Microsoft offers the recording industry what they want does not make it right for them to force my choice of digital music vendor. To go back to the original example, if Bridgestone offered the auto industry tires that mounted easier than other brands, it would still be wrong to insist that I use Bridgestone (perhaps by voiding my warranty for using a different brand). Moreover, since Microsoft does not offer a WMA player for Linux, the recording industry is attempting to force my choice of operating system by forbidding me digital music unless I run Windows, because Microsoft is making their lives easier. That's way, way out of line.

Virg

WMA files are funny to find on Gnutella

[thejake316]

'Cause you download 'em, and they say "you don't have a license to listen to this" error message. So I find IP address of moron sharing WMA files and call FBI from payphone leave anonymous tip say WMA files is kiddie porn encoded jpeg* available from this address. ha ha ha hacked by chinese, bitch email copy of ReB!rth ORIOW ! 0wnz J00 13370 Maxx Out gr337z 2 NV4DR Pachinko Boy V!z4rd XTZnU7Z3

* because just as if you cat /dev/urandom long enough eventually all the works of Shakespeare will fly by the screen, some algorithm somewhere will turn any file of any arbitrary length into kiddie porn

Re:Maybe that's o.k.?

[DivineOb]

Yeah but 40 hours battery life is pretty nice from MD (don't own one myself so I can't verify his numbers). I don't know how long the mp3 cd players go but it can't be too long since they have both moving parts and a mp3 decoder to power...