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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

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

    Or people would rejoice about the end of world hunger.

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

    I take it you mean grammar :)

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

    Yeah - it's called .

  5. 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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