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That's all they're going on? That one quote? It sounds to me like he was making a facetious remark about the few vendors now offering non-DRM music. Even if he wasn't, don't expect them to quit putting DRM and rootkits on CDs. This is the same group that said they had quit suing individual...
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What Amazon won't replace: The copies of 1984 and Animal Farm that you "bought" and downloaded... and Amazon then deleted without notice to make some publisher with regional distribution rights happy. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html?_r=1 It's like...
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Take a peek at this: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=7271611&l=feefec372d&id=623900290 Apparently, Microsoft removed 9 albums this guy "bought" from their marketplace. As a result, he can't play them on his Zune anymore. You gotta love DRM! You gotta... it's in the click...
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They're not suing her for illegal downloading of the songs, they're suing her for making them available to others. Even given the best Internet connection, the fine is preposterous. If you look at the songs in the list they were suing over, some of them are 20+ years old and should not by right...
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The love of XP is a result of people that have never used an operating system other that the released versions of Windows (i.e. everything up to and including Vista). I doubt that many people who have tried a modern Win7 beta, OSX, or Linux distro are clinging to XP. Then again... Vista got slow and...
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Does it still have the horrible DRM that stopped me from buying anymore WD externals? http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2007/12/western-digital/ I'd like to be able to put my own home movies on the drive I own without it treating everything as copywritten and stolen.
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Is this for real? Apparently the DRM in the PC versions of Gears of War was only valid until yesterday, and it shuts itself down: arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/01/pc-gears-of-war-drm-causes-title-to-shut-down-starting-today.ars Yeah, *now* who's the crazy wingnut with an irrational prejudice against...
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Ding-dong, the witch is dead! Time for me to pull my iTunes account out of hock and show my support. BTW - works fine under Wine on Linux.