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The Day The Music Died: Windows Media and DRM

Posted by michael on from the coming-soon-to-a-computer-near-you dept.

SampleMinded writes "The Guardian reports on an early glimpse of what a DRM controlled future looks like. Imagine backing up your files, reformatting your hard drive, then copying the files back over only to find your music no longer works. It happened to this guy. Now That's what I call Xperience!"

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  1. Re:Who Else thought Story #2 was more intersting? by reezle · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hang up
    I keep forgetting to close my internet connection, and consequently remain attached to my ISP for hours doing nothing but run up a phone bill.
    Reg Bauckham

    -Is there a Dumbass Tag for HTML?

  2. Nice .sig but... by FatSean · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What about that giant fucking cloud over India?!

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  3. Thats by Delifisek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why we are continue to use GNU/Linux.

    Day by day M$ users look like battery people like Matrix Movie.

    M$ consume everyting.

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  4. Re:Oh No!!! by SScorpio · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Or people would rejoice about the end of world hunger.

  5. Re:Windows Media Player?? by prgammans · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No,the first mistake was coming down from the tree.

    Though some would say leaving the sea was a bad mistake.

  6. Re:Don't even have to do a reinstall by onion2k · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I take it you mean grammar :)

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  7. Re:Who Else thought Story #2 was more intersting? by BJH · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeah - it's called .

  8. Re:Who Else thought Story #2 was more intersting? by plugger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I thought the advice submitted by readers was funny:

    'And finally, three readers who shall remain nameless suggested Bauckham switch to BT Openworld's service: "He will be disconnected regularly!'

  9. Elvis by billd · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Speaking of the day the music died - I believe today is the 25th anniversary of the death of Elvis. Amazingly, he's still in the charts!

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