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Microsoft Media Player "Security Patch" Changes EULA Big Time

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the under-the-guise-of-security dept.

MobyTurbo writes "In an article on BSD Vault a careful reader posts that in the latest Windows Media Player security patch, the EULA (the "license agreement" you click on) says that you give MS the right to install digital rights management software, and the right to disable any other programs which may circumvent DRM on your computer." So if you want your machine secure, you also want microsoft to have free reign on your PC.

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  1. Does M$ have a theme song yet? by paiute · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What do we want you to listen to today?

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  2. Re:PNG packs tighter than TIFF by GigsVT · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What does TIFF do that PNG doesn't?

    IE's PNG support sucks balls. In fact, PNG support in general is kind of weird. I had to resave a PNG three times to get it to reliably display in IE, Netscape, Opera, and Mozilla. For reference, Opera has the best PNG support out of any browser I have seen.

    Since the link to PNG won't load for me, and I am not too familiar with the format, can you tell me if it can do the following?

    CMYK encoding, YCbCr, L*a*b
    Resolution Metadata
    Extensible Metadata
    A really cool magic number (42) :)

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  3. oh my god! by crodo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    oops I am not allowed to say that word. Hrm why the hell can just one person complaining about the usage of the word god in the pledge of allegiance get the courts to rule it illegal and no matter how many people complain about Microsofts EULA nothing gets done?