kyramilan
join:2006-11-26
Pensacola, FL | Oh, Brother!
Bill Gates has put a ton of DRM in Vista making it Windows ME revisted.
If we are a free country, why do we need Gates & Windows? |
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Hangmn
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| said by kyramilan  :Bill Gates has put a ton of DRM in Vista making it Windows ME revisted. If we are a free country, why do we need Gates & Windows? You don't need it or him..write your own OS..if its good I will buy it
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snipper_cr
join:2002-01-22
Wheaton, IL
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What do you mean? I didnt think that ME had that much DRM or anything of the like. It just sucked :-P
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kyramilan
join:2006-11-26
Pensacola, FL
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I rip CDs in my Creative Zen program. It ignores DRM pretty much. In fact, songs imported from WMP that wouldn't play in WMP, play fine in Creative Zen Media Organizer.
I have the Creative Zen M: 30 gig model. Love it. My iPod is neatly packed away (probably give it to my sisters 7 year old for Christmas). I tried the Zune but reliance on WMP 10 and constant "Update to WMP 11" requests made me take it back. I love it that I can store docs, PDF files, and such from work, transfer to my computer at home, work on them and email the final versions back to my office. |
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compton
join:2002-02-08
Brooklyn, NY
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Bill Gates is knocking itunes when he says ripping CDs better than DRM. The Irony is his products (Zune, I am looking at you)has some of the most draconian DRM in the business. My guess is this is just another attempt by MS to control the market and have vendor lock in to one of their formats. MS is edging around to stating that DRM is broken and only we can fix it; so, the industry should use our DRM standard. This in another attempt by MS to screw Zune's competition especially the ipod. |
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scrummie02
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| One must remember that it isn't MS controlling the DRM policies on content from the RIAA/MPAA, it's those organizations themselves. I believe even Steve Jobs said something a while back about the music industry being stupid trying to implement DRM that will just end up being circumvented anyway.
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| said by scrummie02 :One must remember that it isn't MS controlling the DRM policies on content from the RIAA/MPAA, it's those organizations themselves. I agree. It is the music companies that force Apple and Microsoft to put DRM on their music download services. Both would prefer to sell music w/o DRM. That way they could sell more music and more hardware players.
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matrix3D
join:2006-09-27
Deep River, CT
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I did. I contributed to a little project known as Linux. Guess what? You can get it for free... legally. No need to buy it! Why not try it today? Best part is -- completely DRM free! |
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Fatal Vector
join:2005-11-26
| "Why not try it today?"
Because it's a pain in the ass, unlike windows?
Of course, the proper question to ask is: WHY do you all run to use Bills latest crap, enrich Microsoft over and over and suffer his increasing control over you when you have a perfectly good OS in XP allready?
You all whine about evil Bill and his bloodsucking corporation, yet you all cant wait to run right out to give them your money and suffer with their crap, bloated, heavilly controlled software, never mind the money outlay for extra hardware, just to be able to run the frikken eye candy GUI. Makes no sense. |
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R4M0N
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join:2000-10-04
Glen Allen, VA | reply to matrix3D
Keep on working on it... Still has a long way to go. |
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vinnie97
join:2003-12-05
Mesquite, TX | reply to Fatal Vector
I'm continually amazed how you speak for everyone on the forum. |
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Who decided?
said by news reporter :
Hosting a group of "prominent" (determined how?) bloggers this week...
Probably the same bunch of people who decided Firefox was "the browser you can trust". 
DRM is here to stay. It is the person using the machine who is going to decide whether or not they will purchase protected media. Once they've made that decision they should be aware of the limitations that is put on the material.
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Grail Knight
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Probably the same bunch of people who decided Firefox was "the browser you can trust".
More like bloggers who think outside the MS box or any box for that matter. 
Edit* added more.
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Fatal Vector
join:2005-11-26 | reply to vinnie97
Re: Oh, Brother!
Are you? Trouble is I wasn't speaking FOR everyone. I was speaking OF everyone. I'm continually amazed how people like you cant make distinctions between words and how they are used in syntax. |
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