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on from the striking-deals-abroad dept.
nfras writes "News Ltd is carrying a story about how Australia's largest (and government owned) telco has done a deal with Warner Music to sell music online. It will use Windows Media format and will be similar in pricing to US sites."
"a) the same type and number (probably) of people who hassle with ripping a CD will hassle with ripping wmas (ripping a wma is easier, actually: it doesn't involve even moving your hands away from the keyboard to move around a polycarbonate disc)"
As long as the user has to go from WMA->raw audio->mp3/ogg, they're going to wind up with different encodings depending on what software they use. This at least somewhat mitigates the situation where all the people who've bought the music from the authorized source have identical copies, which goes back to the whole P2P efficiency argument.
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As long as the user has to go from WMA->raw audio->mp3/ogg, they're going to wind up with different encodings depending on what software they use. This at least somewhat mitigates the situation where all the people who've bought the music from the authorized source have identical copies, which goes back to the whole P2P efficiency argument.