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WMP users 'wish' for better DRM, wider takeup of WMA

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Ice-9:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27392.html

One of my favorite passages :
Microsoft: "I wish it was easier to transfer my protected content to a new computer. If you want to buy a new computer, there

lazygamer:
So that's what DRM is!

Doctor V:
As long as there is good *open-source* CD ROM/burning software there should be nothing to worry about.  Except for maybe all computers coming with new CD ROMs that have proprietary drivers and DRM slopped into them.  Don't throw away the computer you have right now when it gets old, it just may come in useful someday.

V

[ October 03, 2002: Message edited by: Doctor V ]

psyjax:

quote:Originally posted by Doctor V:
As long as there is good *open-source* CD ROM/burning software there should be nothing to worry about.  Except for maybe all computers coming with new CD ROMs that have proprietary drivers and DRM slopped into them.  Don't throw away the computer you have right now when it gets old, it just may come in useful someday.

V

[ October 03, 2002: Message edited by: Doctor V ]
--- End quote ---


Oh there is still plety to worry about! If M$ get's their way, there won't be 3rd party CD software that will do what you want. Don't forget that they want to force software to adheer to the "trusted computing" rules they are laying out. These rules will be enforeced by hardware.

If you install a 3rd party app. that isn't "aproved" it simply wont work.

Calum:
in windows. and who cares about that? windows becomes more nonfunctional, we all benefit! it's just a battle between how fast windows gets shit and how stupid people actually are. Whichever of those is greater will win the day. If people are stupider, Microsoft wins, if windows gets shit faster than people can put up with it, then i want to be around to see it!

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