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The Day The Music Died: Windows Media and DRM
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!"
Isn't it funny how m$ takes it upon itself to license your music? I am sticking to OGG from now on. Anyone who is dumb enough to use WMA for anything now deserves whatever they get.
And another thing: We should boycott music until the RIAA goes bankrupt. Don't buy CDs, don't even go to concerts (if you don't buy cd's then the RIAA will just get their dough from the concerts anyway, despite the written contract). Then and only then, will we have freedom once more. It'll be one of those things that go down in history like the boston tea party or something, maybe.
How can you say that the massive double-digit drops in CD sales has nothing to do with piracy via computer?
Only an idiot would buy something when it is available for free.
As an example, the "singles" section of the music market is dead... sales are down as much as 80%. Why? Piracy.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
She backed up her music made using Real Jukebox to her D drive. We re-formatted drive C and re-installed Windows. Of course, not having saved the security key, when she restored her music files she couldn't play them.
As always, the honest people suffer.
You trust your music to proprietary software?! Perhaps some people deserve to suffer.