From: Adam 

Rich wrote:
>    My views haven't changed.  I think it is OK to rip your own CDs for
> your own use.  Always have.  You are changing your tune and looking like
> a fool with your new very silly assertions.
>

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34478

"Zune won't play MS DRM infected files

Comment This wonderbox screws partners too

MICROSOFT JUST BIT its partners in the donkey euphemism with their DRM
infection on music and video files. According to the EFF, backed up by the
MS Zune docs here, the new MS DRM infection is incompatible with the old MS
DRM infection. 'Tis to laugh. No, 'tis to cry.

If you were dumb enough not to heed the advice of, well everyone, and
bought DRM infected files, you are SOL. If you believed the MS Plays For
Sure logo, and bought things based on that, well, it won't play for sure,
it won't play at all on Zune. Basically, as we have been saying, you
squandered every cent you overpaid for your music because of the DRM
infection. I smell a lawsuit.

Does it get better? Sure it does, Microsoft also shafted its partners. If
you signed up to send out content in infected WMA/WMV format, you can't
sell to the hot new device this non-denominational year end season.
Partners get bitten as hard if not harder than the users. Luckily, if you
ignored the law, you can enjoy Zune to the fullest.

So, what do you do if you want to play videos on your shiny new Zune? If
you follow MSs advice, you break the law. "Lots of DVD ripping
software out there that encodes to those formats, so the most popular
formats out there, whether it's MPEG-4 or H.264, we'll support those."
Yes, J Allard, MS Corporate VP is actively advocating that the new device
be used to break laws, DMCA be damned, it is only meant to be observed when
it is fattening their wallet.

So, in general, the device that Microsoft is aiming to gut the iPod with
does three things really well. It screws legal music customers, screws
partners, and actively advocates breaking the law to use. What a wonderful
world we live in, all brought to you by the letters D, R and M, and the
term infection. Seriously, you can't make this stuff up."


So Rich who is the fool/has his views dictated to him by his betters?

Adam

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