Music Industry Forcing WMA standard?

CtrlPhreak writes "Cnet news.com has a story up stating that the music industry is considering having cds that contain the un-rippable tracks as well as the windows media formatted files with limited uses ala Microsoft's digital rights management. Just one more brick in Microsoft's continuing monopoly..." And another format that I can't play back. Hope this one dies fast.

One solution

[SpanishInquisition]

cat /dev/random > /dev/audio

Only listen to white noise, stop enriching those pigs.

DRM= Digital Rights Missing

[dafoomie]

Every day we lose more and more rights... A little here, a little there. Though, I doubt if they can stop me from taking my audio out and recording that... Oh wait, they'll just make sure new sound cards and stereos no longer have audio out, and the ones that do, cd's wont play on.

Toilets marketing

[Alien54]

I have a right to make personal copies and refuse to buy protected CDs," reader Steve Groen wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com. "If Hollywood had invented the toilet, it would be five times as expensive and you'd pay $1 every time you flush."

Sums it up pretty good for me.

These guys are simply criminal. send them to afghanistan for re-education

Re:One solution

[Anonymous Coward]

Two suggestions:

1) Use /dev/urandom so the random seed isn't depleted.

2) Modify that line to redirect the output to let the guys at the MPAA and RIAA know other formats are much simpler. cat /dev/urandom | mail [e-mail]

Yep, that should work.

What about CSS?

[Macint0sh]

What about CSS? Are you calling CSS a bad idea? You little...!

Re:One solution

[tuffy]

If I listen to /dev/random long enough, eventually some piece of copyrighted music will result.

And then I'll get arrested for violating the DMCA.

:)

Does it really matter?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you must have music, there's always midi!

Re:No more epic albums

[Tackhead]

> How many albums you know use the full 78 (wasn't it 74?) minutes?

And hey, isn't the fun of MP3 the fact that you can get the 5-10 minutes worth of music in the 78, 74, or 55 minutes on the CD that's actually worth listening to? ;-)

Re:No more epic albums

[sulli]

Hey, there had to be some benefit!

Re:One solution

[dattaway]

Its been mathematically proven also if you listen to /dev/random long enough you will be able to hear the Complete Works of William Shakespere in Dolby Surround Sound Stereo, and violating Dolby's patent in the process. Enjoy!

Re:This looks familar

[sulli]

the story wasn't copy-protected, so it was copied and replayed

*Ahem* that is MRWMTMA, not WMA.

[gosand]

Dear pawns,

You are hereby requested to cease and desist using the acronym WMA, as it is not compliant with Microsoft® Corporation's current legal trademark notation. The new acronym shall henceforth be referred to as MRWMTMA, for Microsoft® Windows Media(TM) Audio format.

Thank you. All your base are belong to us.

Microsoft=Monopoly [cafepress.com]

*WMA is dying

[Anonymous Coward]

*WMA is dying

Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *WMA community when last month IDC confirmed that *WMA accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *WMA has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *WMA is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *WMA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *WMA faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *WMA because *WMA is dying. Things are looking very bad for *WMA. As many of us are already aware, *WMA continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeWMA is the most endangered of them all.

Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeWMA went out of business and was taken over by APPLE who sell another troubled OS. Now APPLE is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

All major surveys show that *WMA has steadily declined in market share. *WMA is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *WMA is to survive at all it will be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *WMA continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *WMA is dead.

*WMA is dying

Competing standard

[briggsb]

I think the competing NoAudio standard [bbspot.com] well be more effective in controlling pirates than this scheme.

Re:One solution

[garett_spencley]

Yeah it's pretty much equivalent to buying a Britney Spears cd, except you don't have to pay for it.

--
Garett

Re:*Ahem* that is MRWMTMA, not WMA.

[fobbman]

"Thank you. All your base are belong to us."

...not to mention the midrange and whatever is left of the highs after compression hacks the hell out of them.

Re:WMA ....

[kaimiike1970]

There is nothing wrong with 'Cascading Style Sheets' I use em all the time... (Although I don't know what programmers have to do with them.)

Re:One solution

[mansoft]

Oh, please, listen to opensource music:

cat /boot/vmlinuz > /dev/audio

Re:why not a standard??

[Anonymous Coward]

Yep.

And those bastards who make the vending machines are up to these tricks too.

Damn them! I want that candy bar for free!

Re:Could someone at the DOJ please look at this?

[sulli]

You really think John "You Have No Rights, Get Over It" Ashcroft will do anything to promote consumer choice?

So let me get this right:

[Anonymous Coward]

You're going to put your business model up against the collective intellect of every computer programmer who likes music...

(Apologies to Scott Adams)