Re: [linux-audio-dev] WMA files

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Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] WMA files
From: Jim Peters (jim_AT_aguazul.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue Apr 17 2001 - 12:14:44 EEST

Richard Dobson wrote:
> 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.

Relax, this isn't technically feasible. Your HD wouldn't be capable
of storing arbitrary binary data in that case, making it useless -
unless you're happy to have your OS fall over regularly due to false
detections of copyright violations.

Jim 

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