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WindowsXP & MP3
by Steve Gibson, Apr 12, 2001 6:56am PDTYou guys are gonna love this one. As everyone knows the RIAA and all kinds of other corporations dont really like the MP3 format and have been coming up with their own audio compressed file formats for a while hoping to get people to switch. It hasnt been successful at all though. But guess what?
Microsoft and Seattle-based RealNetworks are working to subtly wean consumers away from MP3 technology, [...] plans to severely limit the quality of music that can be recorded as an MP3 file using software built into the next version of its personal-computer operating system, Windows XP, according to the report.Uh WHAT?! Cripple your software intentionally because you dont like a particular file format? Thanks Orion
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I'm not an M$ Fan boy...but common... this is extremely unlikely...
the only way to pull people away from MP3's is to give them same or better
sound quality, at smaller file sizes.
C'Mon ppl, be reasonable.
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You will still find quality stuff. I really don't get why some people here are getting excited over this.
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Isn't it clear already? Microsoft is DYING!
Hailstorm is the most ludicrous thing I have ever heard! It's like a big blackmail database.
And the subscription model will only speed up the switch over to linux! Why? Because there are TONS of MS freeloaders out there! I for one have never paid for a MS piece of software, and I never plan to do so!
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Anyhow, what do you people think all that key infrastructure around programs is in XP for? Sure as hell isn't just to protect you from evil viruses. Any bets that Microsoft will require that code that can create MP3s be signed in order to function?
Best hope they don't report your encoding habits back to the RIAA when they do their weekly check to decide whether you can still use the OS or not.
Microsoft is aiding and abetting the RIAA in preventing you from exercising your right of fair use. What do you expect from a company that helped bring you the UCITA and the DMCA?
If we keep going down this path, any computer that has hardware that can be ugraded by the use and runs an OS that doesn't rape you will be licensed like a lockpick. After all, who but criminals and law enforcement would need something like that?
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I legally recorded near 3000 songs from cds and records I own because I use my pc as my complete entertainment system (or sorts) and Microsoft wants to fuck with that? Blow me....They can stick their Xbox up their Xbehinds too...
Damn, I am in a good mood.
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AAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What's next I wonder? Maybe MS will get with hardware vendors and make us pay for drivers?
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Doesn't anyone notice the fuck job going on here? Now their releasing an OS every year and nobody mentions that. Microsoft wants you to eventually authenticate with their servers for their apps, Then once they get you there, they will release XBOX 2, a fully functional home PC that even your grandmother can bring into the kitchen to run.. where you cant upgrade it just like their specs on how THEY feel a PC should be made. Once they get you locked in, then truly all your base are belong to us!
Keep sucking that cock folks, because bill is coming for yer ass.
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On the other hand, if MS does somehow manage to give mp3 a general boot in the ass on XP, then that's just one more reason to never own another MS OS. My tentative prediction is that MS' over-zealous copyright protection in XP, among other "features", will induce large segments of the enthusiast crowd (that's us) to look for alternatives for concurrent use, if not complete replacement.
MoNsTeR
you all may be WONDERING what window "XP" stands for.
here is what you do
1) write XP on a BLANK sheet of paper in LARGE letters
2) rotate that sheet of paper NINETY DEGREES to the RIGHT
3) it's an EMOTICON
it looks like CART MAN in SOUTHPARK
your bud
-gbd
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we're consumers and apparently 100 of us (this might be a bit high) so far have said, no.
so they don't know what we want. they just want to think that.
damn them to hell
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or
winXP will only map crap mp3s no matter whaat 3rd party software they use
it does not seem to really say
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I'll start freaking out when I see HARDWARE that disables mp3.
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just out of suriousity tho, i wonder how much the riaa is paying microsoft.
Xmms kicks wimamps ass good and mplayer altough still command line is by far the best video player out there, does every damn thing even enhances the video if you can spare the horsepower.
CC
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