Re: [linux-audio-dev] WMA files

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] WMA files
From: Richard Dobson (RWD_AT_cableinet.co.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 17 2001 - 01:08:48 EEST

Not necessarily! If the audio industry pressure, to require ~all~ hard
disks to implement copy prevention for anything deemed copyrighted,
wins, no OS will be immune. Better start stockpiling disks, while there
is still time.

Richard Dobson

Benno Senoner wrote:
>

>
> Poor future windows users: their box will not be a general purpose computing
> device anymore: it will be a device where M$/RIAA/MPAA decide what you can do.
>
> But I guess people hanging around on this mailinglist will not be THAT affected.
> :-)
> 

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