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Written by tinfoil
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Friday, 22 September 2006 16:04
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The Inquirer: THINK DRM WAS bad already? Think I was joking when I said the
plan was to start with barely tolerable incursions on your rights, then
turn the thumbscrews? Welcome to Windows Media Player 11, and the
rights get chipped away a lot more. Get used to the feeling, if you buy
DRM infected media, you will only have this happen with increasing
rapidity.
One of the problems with WiMP11 is licensing and backing it up. If
you buy media with DRM infections, you can't move the files from PC to
PC, or at least you can't and have them play on the new box. If you
want the grand privilege of moving that content, you need to get the
approval of the content mafia, sign your life away, and use the tools
they give you. If you want to do it in other ways, you are either a
lawbreaker or following the advice of J Allard. Wait, same thing.
So, in WiMP10, you just backed up your licenses, and stored them in a
safe place. Buying DRM infections gets you a bunch of bits and a
promise not to sue, but really nothing more. The content mafia will do
anything in its power, from buying government to rootkitting you in
order to protect those bits, and backing them up leaves a minor
loophole while affording the user a whole lot of protection.
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