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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. Insanity by x311 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    With all of these countermeasures against copying and piracy put on all digital media, people are eventually just going to quit buying music and stick to listening to what they already own. I have already started to do this and have really uncovered some gems in my cd collection and of some mp3's that I've just had stored in the back of my HD. Rediscover your old favorites and let all of this crap blow over. Besides, most of today's music is manufactured crap anyhow.

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  2. Re:Maybe It's Not So bad by scott1853 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Actually, the article also stated that when he ripped the CDs he could have turned off the DRM features if he had gone into Tools | Options. This option is probably turned on by default though.

  3. The Whole Truth? by Captain+Large+Face · · Score: 1, Redundant

    If you read the article fully, it can be seen that the music can be migratted across using a few simple steps. It's not as if the music was lost for good...

  4. Currently you can disable most of these features. by Zapdos · · Score: 1, Redundant

    But they are built in, and you of course know that there are plans, and the required "Critical Updates" have already been written to completely remove your ability to disable these "Features". This will occur when the economic and political climates are right.

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