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Microsoft Preps 'Janus' Music Copy-Prevention Scheme

Posted by michael on from the doomed-warclub-which-no-man-can-own-but-only-rent dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft is expected to unveil copy-protection software this summer that will for the first time give portable digital music players access to rented tunes from all-you-can-eat subscription services -- a development that some industry executives believe will shake up the online music business." Janus is the Roman god of doorways, gates, passages, preventing people from copying music, etc.

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  1. Janus by Debian+Cabbit · · Score: 0, Redundant

    IIRC, Janus was also two-faced. Kind of reminds me of Microsoft, actually.

  2. M$ hypocrites by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Janus: two-faced god. Micro$oft: monopoly perpetuated by piracy, charges $hundreds for legitimate copies.

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  3. Janus? The two-faced god? by TigerNut · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That would be appropriate for just about any of Microsoft's recent ventures into the standards arena.

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  4. Re:I could be wrong, and if I am I'll eat a bug, b by khendron · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I am of two minds on this. I agree, but then it occurred to be that many people fork out $50 or more per month just to watch 100+ TV channels.

    So why not fork out money to access 100K+ music files?

    Maybe it is a perception thing. We are used to owning music (vinyl, tape, CD), but we are not really used to owning what's on TV. Just a hypothsis. Stomp on me if you don't agree.

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  5. Re:Serious question by Eric_Cartman_South_P · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Wrong. It IS a crack. Maybe it doesn't have a slick GUI and make you coffee, but it IS a crack. Don't be such a noob and say "but it doesn't do blah, or blah blah". It cracks the copy protection and that's that. It's a crack.

    What else do you want? You want it to forward the file to your AOL account or something?