Quoted from Wired Magazine Article
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,64821,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
www.wired.com
"With MSN Music, downloaded songs can be played on five computers, a playlist of songs can be burned to CD up to seven times, and users are granted unlimited capability to transfer songs to a current list of roughly 70 portable audio devices."
>My comment>Why be limited to five (5) Computers, when you buy a song, if it is not duplicated, in existence then why limit its transport from machine to machine? Also if your CD Becomes Damaged why limit to Seven (7)Copies? what if I sit here and break Seven CD's or Burn 7 Bad Disc, why should my license be invalidated?
"Open-format activists like Jason Schultz, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, ask why the company doesn't simply strip DRM altogether, and lament the fact that Microsoft's service launch makes it all the more likely that two opposing proprietary systems Microsoft's and Apple's will now dominate a marketplace some feel would be better served by open standards such as MP3. "Microsoft's music launch is just the latest effort to 'bring music to the masses' by, ironically, setting up a new, separate, incompatible DRM fiefdom," said Schultz. "The thing people love about the internet is that you can send e-mail to anyone in the world with any e-mail client. In the digital music world, however, we're seeing an increasing trend toward technological balkanization. Apple's iTunes won't work on anything but the iPod. Real's music won't work on open MP3 players. And now Microsoft will require any device supporting its music service to use its Janus DRM."
>My comment>First off let us look at the Actual Concept they are promoting Janus DRM. That in and of itself is telling the tale. Microsoft does not Name it concept paths and products willynilly.
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Janus_(mythology)
Janus in Mythology
"Janus the god of change and transitions such as the progression of past to future, of one condition to another, of one vision to another, and of one universe to another.
His two faces (originally, one was always bearded, one clean-shaven later both bearded) originally represented the sun and the moon. He was usually depicted with a key. Janus head is a popular phrase for deception, that is, when action does not match speech."
Now doesn't that beat all? Hmmm.. MS Names a DRM Platform for the God most commonly associated with being two faced. Two faced as in "please determine which extensions to associate with Media PLayer, and NEVER TURN THEM OFF, as in LIE.If MS lies about something as simple as file extensions, what else is going on under the hood? Now isn't that interesting, and further in the Wired Article MS is quoted at how they are going to make the DRM Available to the Masses. Available does not imply open standard or Non Proprietary either.
I am telling you a freaight train is coming, and you are a deaf man standing on the Tracks. I am trying to tell you something I was privy too, without actually telling you (get my drift?)
Do you think the EFF is tilting a windmills here? Do you think the EFF wants to dilute its Opinions and Respect by encouraging a misguided concern? I think not.
Well here is another hidden Nugget in the Article.
"Rob Bennett, senior director of MSN Entertainment who previously led efforts to market the Internet Explorer browser told Wired News that updates to the service will come in six- to eight-week intervals, with a more complete release planned for October.?"
>My CommentOk now this is the Guy that handles IE Browser, now there's no Issue Here Right? IE doesn't conform to Internet Standards, IE was never run as an anticompetative venture (Hmm where's Netscape I wonder? Ie never had an Issue with Operas' Homepage?), MS hasn't been tied up in court all over the World for Bundling and Monopolisation due to IE?
I must be an Alarmist on this, but apparently I am not alone.
For some people Install, Use and be happy. For those that care Be Warned, that is all I am trying to say. The closest thing I can think is Wolf in Sheeps Clothing.
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