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MS Backs Down On Encrypted Digital TV Recording

karrde writes "CNet (and others) is reporting that: 'Microsoft has bowed to consumer pressure and pulled back from a controversial plan that would have encrypted TV shows recorded on forthcoming digital media PCs.' One could hope that this will be the first many decisions in this direction."

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  1. Re:Make up the damn minds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Well, damn...all my copies of Windows (98, NT, 2000, and XP) must be defective, because they never bluescreen.

    *cough*Bullshit*cough*

    Oh no, I apologize. I get it now. You said your copies of 98, NT, 2000, and XP never bluescreen. I guess you're a newbie. It's not the install disks that bluescreen. It's the computer running the OS.

    Oh, wait...that's probably because I actually know how to operate a computer

    Oh yes, it really sounds like you do. ROFL.

    and I don't let it bluescreen".

    I'd like to know how you can not "let" a computer bluescreen. They usually do it without first getting permission from the user.

    Oh, sorry, I get it now. You never turn the power on. Or you run Linux.

    Boy, you had me fooled for a minute.