From: Ad 

Geo. wrote:
> "Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote
> in message news:45d180f2{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>> What will be interesting is if EMI does the drm free stuff and sales
>>> take off, will MS recognize just how much activatiion/copy protection
>>> is hurting sales of windows?
>
>> EMI is not a monopoly.
>
> By the time the music industry and movie industry figure out that DRM is
> hurting sales and they eliminate it, MS won't be a monopoly anymore
> either..
>
> Geo.

Maybe the music industry but everyone else is feeling that way already.
Heck look how both blue-ray & HD-DVD have been cracked almost prior to
release.

One wonders if that was a very clever person or someone
purposefully....."left the engineers options available" just as
DVD makers used to do wrt turning off region coding (as opposed to simply
not building it in as they do now that battle has been won).


Adam

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