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Zombie9920:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/27697.html

If this goes through it will just be another thing that can't be used in non-MS OSes.

voidmain:
And you believe this is a good thing? Even though the article didn't say it, I would tend to agree with your statement. It has proprietary written all over it. It did say it would be compatible with existing CDR and CDRW formats and there is no reason  listed in the article that it would only work with M$. However, when they start talking about single image and metadata I see DRM written all over it. I suspect you could use it as a normal CDR/RW drive but it will also be able to play proprietary CDs that can only be played if you enter the proper key to unlock it. Of course this is all speculation on my part. I certainly don't trust *anything* Microsoft is involved in.

beltorak0:
DRM is written in the name: High Media ACCESS Technology, HighMAT.

What do you think that word ACCESS means??

-t.

Doctor V:
I just don't get it, why on earth would anyone be happy about this.  There is nothing good about it at all.    :confused:   MS will only further be able to enforce what media files a user is able to play on their computer.  Zombie, XP Looser and RRS will all be saying "yesterday with windoze I could do x, y, and z.  today I can only do x, and y, lets celebrate!".  What the hell are you guys thinking?

V

Zombie9920:

quote:Originally posted by Doctor V:
I just don't get it, why on earth would anyone be happy about this.  There is nothing good about it at all.     :confused:    MS will only further be able to enforce what media files a user is able to play on their computer.  Zombie, XP Looser and RRS will all be saying "yesterday with windoze I could do x, y, and z.  today I can only do x, and y, lets celebrate!".  What the hell are you guys thinking?

V
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I never siad I was happy about it...then again I never said that I was unhappy about it either. It simply doesn't matter to me, because I use Windows so a propriarity CD format/filesystem that only works in Windows won't affect me at all.

So to make a long story short..my feelings about it are nuetral. ;P

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