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We don't need more reverse engineering ...
What we need is for people to boycott ENTIRELY these DRM formats, and stop pirating as well. The more you crack the DRM and steal music, the nastier the DRM is going to get, and the more excuses that the entertainment industry has to buy more laws that make our lives even harder. (Of course, the DRM does nothing to prevent piracy, but the dumbf**ks in congress don't know that.)

If the industry is going to use DRM, we as consumers must DEMAND that the industry standardize on ONE SINGLE FORMAT and give us some kind of written GUARANTEE that the native files won't stop working when whatever server(s) that are currently authenticating the files go offline forever. For example, if Apple decides to shut down the iTunes Music Store next year, what's going to happen to the 100 .m4p files that Joe Sixpack has on his hard drive? Suppose he hasn't burned them to CD yet?
Posted by: worknman   Posted on: 12/22/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Destined for a fight  Boot_Agnostic | 12/22/05
Don't pity, give a round of applause  mdemuth | 12/22/05
I agree  opensourcepro | 12/22/05
Based on Firefox technology ...  worknman | 12/22/05
I don't know what to think about this.  nucrash | 12/22/05
Winamp is a collection of lost opportunities  escoles@... | 12/22/05
Incorrect on ID3 tags  too_much green_tea | 12/22/05
Did they have to pick such a bad example to copy?  escoles@... | 12/22/05
From A Media Player Convert  nikoli | 12/22/05
I have only one problem with iTunes....  hal9000mx | 12/22/05
21000 songs  springerj | 12/22/05
????  An_Axe_to_Grind | 12/22/05
Say what?  woot! | 12/22/05
Most people just switch silently  voska | 12/22/05
I don't think that you actually understand what he's saying...  mastercko | 12/23/05
forgot something  mastercko | 12/23/05
Did they have to pick such a bad example to copy?  ckesner | 12/22/05
I found...  zaphod@... | 12/22/05
Not exactly original  msfletch | 12/22/05
Hmmm  juhlster1021h | 12/22/05
hmm...  mastercko | 12/23/05
What's so "pioneering" about this?  techboy_z | 12/22/05
Pioneers of -  sometime | 12/23/05
Is this guy crazy?  ITTech001 | 12/22/05
I agree...  BitTwiddler | 12/22/05
Groovy  tic swayback | 12/22/05
We don't need more reverse engineering ...  worknman | 12/22/05
I'm not talking about stealing anything  tic swayback | 12/22/05
Feature Suggestion  rscshagger | 12/22/05
I-Tunes is terrible  8bird | 12/22/05
Most players are terrible  mediavant | 12/22/05
iTunes worst than most players  joethemacfan | 12/23/05
My iTunes horror story  bbbaldie_z | 12/27/05
My iTunes horror story  bbbaldie_z | 12/27/05
Too buggy, too invasive  Kerensky97 | 12/27/05
Sounds like a Windows problem  GoPower | 12/27/05
ha! too funny  doh123 | 12/27/05
I use a Mac so I won't have to RTFM!!! heh heh heh  Laff | 12/27/05
Windows Media Player for me!  314 | 12/22/05
Err... Winamp isn't WMP. (n/t)  Twey | 12/24/05
Where's Google?  StanB | 12/22/05
Preferences vs. new -  sometime | 12/23/05
No thanks, I like having 100+GB of MP3s on my HD!!!  xunil skcor | 12/23/05
Billions and billions of tunes  john616 | 12/24/05
Creative?  nikkidkat | 12/24/05

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