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| From | Sam Smith <sam@lullabypit.com> |
| Subject | Re: Vista Kills MP3s dead... |
| Date | Sat, 27 Jan 2007 13:03:40 -0500 |
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Jaimie Vernon wrote:
This warning has been issued about those thinking of upgrading their
existing PC to Microsoft Vista:
"Depending on a person's computer needs, Gibson says it may be more
cost-efficient to buy a new PC with Vista installed than to upgrade a
machine and buy the operating system.
Axelrod warns that those who download music frequently could be in
for a nasty surprise with Vista, which includes digital copyright
software to prevent illegitimate MP3s from playing.
"A lot of people are going to be very upset when they find that their
thousands of MP3 songs no longer play - and that also applies to
anything that's media, so it's DVDs or whatever," Axelrod warns.
"There's going to be a huge backlash of people who have acquired
these things without paying for them."
Not being a tech geek, I'm sure there's a good answer to this but I don't
know what it is. But how would an OS know which of the thousands of mp3s
on my machine I paid for and which ones I didn't?
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