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gnomez:

quote:Originally posted by Master of Reality:


this is where microsofts new "take over music" scheme somes into play.

MS is going to embed into there OS a special type of windows media (.WMA) and have it specially encrypted all the way into the speakers. They are going to make special speakers that you HAVE TO use in order to listen to it, and they can make it so the music "expires" after any number of days and you cant listen to it anymore.

here for more info: http://forum.fuckmicrosoft.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=000084

[ May 03, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]
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That's totally sick.  And what does Microsoft have to gain from this?  I don't think they are a major record company.. are they being payed or something?

psyjax:
A while back, his Gatesness wanted to buy up all of the great masterpices of art so he could develop a plasma screen that you hung in your house and licenced the paintings you wanted to display. You would have to pay a fee to have famous works of art streemed in to your living room so you could look at them.

Corbis, is Mr. Gate's foray in to the world of stock photography. Every time a magazine needs a little picture for an add or article, Gate's gets a cut.

So if gates controled music, he would be controlling the recording industry.

Do you remember the movie Sneakers? How at the end Ben Kingsly goes in to this speach about how money dosn't matter anymore, and information is what will determin who is rich and powerfull in the future. Well, that's exactly what's going on.

M$ crusades against open source for these very same reasons. They want to control how you get your information, where you get it, and why you get it. Because that way, they basically controll everything.

World domination? Maybe...

But more likely the domination of the Media.... close enugh to world domination I reckon.

MSN, WebTV, ComCast cabel, anyone?

jtpenrod:

quote:That's totally sick. And what does Microsoft have to gain from this? I don't think they are a major record company.. are they being payed or something?
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What they hope to gain is the destruction of third party media players. They give the record companies what they've been lusting after for years: uncopyable digital music, and in return, Macro$uck gets a completely proprietary digital protocol that can be played only on winblows. Or so they hope. Of course, the record companies would be well advised to run from this just as fast as they can. Otherwise Macro$uck will find some way to fuck them over too, just as they did to IBM, Apple, Stac Electronics, Caldera, etc. & ad infinitum. And secondly, it's not going to work anyway. So what if they encrypt right up to those "special" speakers? Once it leaves those speakers, I can easily record the music with a microphone, digitize it and create a wav or mp3 file from it. In the end, they accomplish nothing. Just another desperate attempt to keep Winblows alive.
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Calum:
if you have the software now to make mp3s, and an OS that will allow the program to run, then who's to stop you continuing to use it? and even if you do dumbly allow yrself to be lumbered with an OS, player and speakers that control yr music listening habits for you, why can't you just get a soundcard that'll allow you to take a line out? Who's to stop you taping CDs? who can stop you listening to/ bootlegging the radio?
Music was being pirated before computers, and will be until there is no such thing as a permanent storage device for music.

davebrock:
basically MS.....fuck em!
In the words of Terry Pratchett "MUSIC SHOULD BE FREE"
Ogg vorbis, say no more!

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