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erik
state.music
quoted 67 lines From: Adam Piontek <apiontek@yahoo.com>
>From: Adam Piontek <apiontek@yahoo.com>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: [idm] copy protection/WinXP (serious question)
>Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 06:42:02 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 23:44:18 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: The Chisa <matt@holland.deathhouse.net>
> >
> > You still have to install CODECS to encode
> > mp3s, and Windows XP suppresses THAT, too.
> > Yes, it does.
>
>I've been out of the puter/techy loop for a while, so
>maybe I've really just missed this - could you please
>forward to me any information documenting that Windows
>XP actually somehow suppresses and disables the MP3 or
>other audio codecs of other companies? Not that I
>don't trust you, I just find it difficult to believe
>that, for example, upgrading to Windows XP will render
>LAME.EXE (or WinDAC, or Audiograbber, or whatever's
>yer poison) inoperable or crippled...
>
>I find it difficult to believe that MS would release
>an OS that openly and blatantly cripples commonly used
>software written by other people - that seems like it
>would be a major, obvious antitrust violation right
>off the bat. It seems especially wrong if it somehow
>cripples your music-making software.
>
>Even if they did do that, I find it difficult to
>believe that I and many other would not simply drop
>Windows and switch to Linux. I've been contemplating
>doing it lately, anyway, and the only thing keeping me
>from it has been that I'm used to Windows and don't
>have too many problems with it. Were they to cripple
>the main software I tend to use on my computer, I'd
>switch in a heartbeat. It'll be harder if the rumors
>are true that Loki is going under, as I'd want to get
>Linux versions of my favorite games, I'd still make
>do.
>
>Not that I have to upgrade to XP, either - we can all
>keep running 98 or ME or whatever.
>
> > > Even MP3 must be replaced/deprecated someday...
> >
> > I also agree with this, as I tried to illustrate
> > in my "they did it with DVD" section of my rant.
>
>You're correct, and I got your point earlier - I was
>talking about other audio formats, not breaking the
>copyright protection that people might be putting in
>place. Which I guess, in a way, is kinda the same
>thing.
>
>-A?am
>
>
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