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realist:
These little love notes seem to pop up more and more these days, I wonder why?



[ May 21, 2003: Message edited by: The Realist ]

Refalm:
It's because you have probably selected "automatic updates on" in Windows XP, which automaticly installed Windows Media Player 9. Oh sure, you can uninstall Windows Media Player 9, but you'll never get rid of DRM.

My advise (what I'm about to do):
1. Back-up your non-system and program files on a separate FAT32 partition.

2. Make an ext3 partition.

3. FORMAT C: the partition with Windows.

4. Install Windows 98 SE or Windows XP (without the updates this time!).

5. Install Linux on the ext3 partition.

6. Configure GNU Grub so you can choose between Linux or Windows to at start-up.

When you've done this, you'll only have to woory about Windows when your going to play a game that doesn't work in Linux. But of course, this is what I should do  :D

Fett101:
Actually, there is no uninstall for WMP9. The only way to do it is to make a restore point before installing it, and going back to that point to uninstall it.

mobrien_12:
I won't use WMP for anything winamp can do, especially because winamp can do it better, faster, and with less RAM.

Does the DRM components in question affect third party players?

The popup is kindof disturbing.  "a DRM security file are sent to Microsoft"... right.  So MS holds the DRM keys here.

And I still find it distasteful how MS refers to DRM as "security."

realist:
This message came from Realplayer9 with the WMV plugin installed, by the way. WMP9 is installed however I have not accepted the license agreement so I cannot use it. I also have never clicked 'OK' to download any DRM stuff, which means that some files (which I downloaded legally from people's websites) will not play. I have yet to try these files in a non-Windows environment.

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