Microsoft Preps 'Janus' Music Copy-Prevention Scheme 466
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft is expected to unveil copy-protection software this summer that will for the first time give portable digital music players access to rented tunes from all-you-can-eat subscription services -- a development that some industry executives believe will shake up the online music business." Janus is the Roman god of doorways, gates, passages, preventing people from copying music, etc.
More on Janus (Score:5, Funny)
what will happen (Score:3, Funny)
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An MS product named after a two-faced god. (Score:2, Funny)
One Question (Score:5, Funny)
There's Irony in there naming... (Score:5, Funny)
Society of Janus is a San Francisco based BDSM education/support group...
know what it is exactly you're consenting to when you click accept on EULA.
Janus? (Score:5, Funny)
"Launch project Janus!"
"You'll never get away with this!"
"I already have, Bond! Within minutes, the world will have no choice but to bow to my demands... or face the consequences."
"You fiend!"
yeah. right. (Score:2, Funny)
Like that water-resistant watch I used to have.
It wasn't water-proof
kulakovich
Re:Are they kidding? (Score:5, Funny)
and the bettings good that the cracking program will be called Hugh allowing one to Hugh .....
Re:Are they kidding? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:When will they learn.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Are they kidding? (Score:5, Funny)
Think about the kind of people who are reading this right now...
Now picture them naked.
Ok, now think about what kind of sick, twisted, perverse people are actually going to take a good look at those kind of naked people and ask yourself, "Do any of those sick, twisted or perverse people work at my bank".
If the answer is no, then this might actually be a feasible plan...
Since it has the word "anus" in it... (Score:0, Funny)
-1, Wrong (Score:0, Funny)
Re:Are they kidding? (Score:3, Funny)
Moe: Hold on, I'll check (to crowd) Hugh Jass. Hey, I wanna Hugh Jass. Oh, someone check the men's room for a Hugh Jass.
(A man approaches Moe)
Hugh: Uh, I'm Hugh Jass
Moe: Telephone
(Moe Hands hugh the receiver)
Hugh: Hello, this is Hugh Jass
Bart: Uh, hi
Hugh: Who's this?
Bart: Bart Simpson
Hugh: What can I do for you, Bart?
Bart: Uh, look, I'll level with you, mister. This is a crank call that sorta backfired and I'd like to bail out right now.
Hugh: All right. better luck next time
Re:Completely off topic (Score:3, Funny)
Hugh.
And Microsoft's copy protection will soon look like the goat guy.
original project name was changed... (Score:5, Funny)
Absolutely Uncrackable DRM: Here's How (Score:5, Funny)
If more record companies would simply *NOT RELEASE* music, there would be nothing to crack. In fact, I'd urge record companies to examine this carefully. Take Janet Jackson, for example. If they *refused to release* 'Damita Jo' -- or, better yet, refused to record it -- there would be nothing to crack, nothing to leak, and no filesharing problem.
The fact that record companies have recorded Damita Jo and actually released it indicates (to me, at least) that the record companies are as complicit in the problem as anyone else.
My two cents.
Are they kidding? Yes... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Are they kidding? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Guaranteed hard-failure of player? (Score:1, Funny)
it's kind of like buying a car with a pre-wired explosive charge under the hood set to go off in severeal years.
These already exist, they are called Volvos.
Re:Are they kidding? (Score:4, Funny)
So it's written in Java, then?
BDRM! (Score:3, Funny)
No no no, it's BDRM: bondage/dominance/rights-masochism.
Only buy this if you enjoy watching your rights suffer!
Re:Serious question (Score:1, Funny)
Have you ever heard of janus being two faced?? [:evil grin:] Is it any wonder why it is Microsoft's new patron diety.
Re:Reminds me of something else... (Score:3, Funny)
Dude, Wal-Mart is to cool as Iraq is to WMDs.