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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:Oh No!!! by duffbeer703 · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

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    Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
  2. Re:It's already happening by Citizen+of+Earth · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.