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Microsoft DRM To Get Even Tighter
Toreo asesino writes, "Microsoft is tightening the screws on their up & coming DRM platform. First, Windows Media Player 11 removes the right to move music from one machine to another. According to their website, WMP11 'does not permit you to back up your media usage rights (previously known as licenses).' Worse, if you rip your own CDs and the 'Copy protect music' option is turned on, WMP11 will require you to 'connect to a Microsoft Web page that explains how to restore your rights a limited number of times.'" The Inquirer has an even more jaundiced take on Microsoft's turn of the thumbscrew.
The more MS does this, the more LINUX will win! We should encourage this behavior out of the evil empire!
> If I like the artist then I go out a buy there CD.
There wolf. There castle. There dictionary.
From Charlie Demerjian's Inquirer article:
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..." (I was under the impression that Civil Rights refers to inalienable rights guaranteed by the constitution and its ammendments. Copyright is one such right with constitutional authority, as denoted in Article 1, Section 8, clause 8 - though it is not a civil right as specified by the original ten ammendments.)
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:) I just have high standards for professional journalism. And, unfortunately, I must say you haven't met them here. --M
"... if you buy DRM infected media
"... approval of the content mafia
"... nothing less than a civil rights coup
"... you are a wallet with legs waiting to be raped
"... How long do you think it will be before a service pack, masquerading as a 'critical security patch' takes away the optional part of the 'copy protection'?" (I don't know. Do you?)
As much as I agree with the sentiment of the author, this rhetoric damages the credibility of those who might gain the ear of real politicians - attorneys from the EFF, law professors, and such. Charlie, you're not helping here. And for God's sake, take a journalism course!
In the interest of disclosure, Charlie and I grew up together. And, Charlie, I very much still care for you and am glad to see your continued success - even though I'm being a prick here.
I wasn't aware iTunes recorded DVDs. Thanks for pointing out to Apple and all us /. readers that iMovie is redundant.
Before you mention how WMP does more than burn DVDs... wait! WMP burns DVDs? Thanks for letting us know that, too!
Oh, and before you bring up how "WMP" isn't jargon itself, about how WMP does less but it easier, etc, notice a couple of things:
1. MPlayer plays media very simply, too.
2. The parent of your post was talking about doing something that WMP does not do. Recording a DVD does involve more knowledge than playing one, hence the additional terminology that you're calling "soup of jargon".
I've read some of your older posts, so it's clear to me you're not an MS astroturfer. That wasn't clear just from reading your one response here, though. Point taken that perceived complexity chases away some users. However, the post to which you were responding was talkign about something that is necessarily more complex than playing a DVD or a single media file.