"It's probably enough that we continue to forge ahead with building a positive alternative while we watch the corporate music business screw itself into the ground. ;) " Just about says it all!! Dont worry about the million M$ users in the world, think about the 5 1/2 billion who are waiting to get computers!! Cheers Bob tim hall wrote: > On Friday 04 November 2005 15:12, Mark Knecht was like: > >>On 11/4/05, Burkhard Woelfel <versuchsanstalt@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>Hash: SHA1 >>> >>>On Thursday 03 November 2005 15:04, Wolfgang Woehl wrote: >>> >>>>studio-64 <fsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >>>> >>>>>Try this for an update: >>>>>http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/02/1421250 >>>>>PS this really is the war Zone, they get this through and we all >>>>>lose!! >>>> >>>>Come on, FonyBMG and all the other biggies are idiot thieves on a >>>>desperate rampage. In the past decade music industry has panicked out >>>>of every single smart thing. They managed to screw their own A&R for >>>>good. It's fun actually to watch them and their crap go down. A badly >>>>written rootkit from Sony? I'm laughing essential parts of my body off >>>>right now. >>>> >>>>Wolfgang >>> >>>Spiegel.De reporting about "the PR debacle" (in german) >>><http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,383051,00.html> >>> >>>- - Burkhard >> >>I have not yet found any non-Linux English report on this that points >>out it's really Microsoft's lack of system security that would let a >>CDROM install system files that cause the problem, right? > > > There is that. ;) > > Sony's DRM rootkit also appears to violate the Computer Misuse Act in the UK > and may have legal problems in other parts of Europe. Plus, I'm fascinated to > read the idea that Sony appear to have used parts of LAME code in their > product, does that count as shooting yourself in the foot? Oh, and of course > it doesn't work on Linux or Macs anyway. Boycotting Sony is probably > worthwhile, although that probably won't mean a great deal for most people on > this list. It's probably enough that we continue to forge ahead with building > a positive alternative while we watch the corporate music business screw > itself into the ground. ;) -- Bearmusic hearmymusic.co.uk <http:www.hearmymusic.co.uk>
