Windows Media Player 11 and Urge 488
j0e_average writes "The Washington Post is running a review of Microsoft's next version of Media Player, and its integration with MTV's new music service Urge. According to reviewer, Rob Pegoraro, 'Not only does this new, Windows XP-only software promote Urge to the exclusion of other retailers, you can't shop at this store-- or even just play your Urge downloads -- in any earlier version of Windows Media Player.' The Microsoft/Urge subscription model contains a new twist as well: 'Urge also lets you rent songs: $9.95 a month (or $99 a year) lets you download all the tracks you want to a computer, while $14.95 ($149 a year) lets you transfer those downloads to most newer Windows Media-compatible players. These rented songs can't be burned to CD and go silent if you stop paying the fees.'"
i bet (Score:5, Funny)
Oh reeeeely? We'll see.
Tish Tosh (Score:1, Funny)
Ooh! Ooh! DRM! Yay! (Score:2, Funny)
Not.
Huh? (Score:2, Funny)
Should be called "Purge" (Score:5, Funny)
Yo!MTV Craps (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oops! Someone Didn't Proofread (bad Enter key) (Score:4, Funny)
Not only do I declare you a grammar Nazi, I also declare you a spelling Frenchman.
psh.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Ooh! Ooh! DRM! Yay! (Score:3, Funny)
Yes very funny, you don't know how many bottles of champagne were popped and subsequently wasted because of your delayed 'Not' comment.
Re:i bet (Score:5, Funny)
Audio comes -out- of one, right? Goes to your speakers.
Well, our informants in the underground scene have reported that you can use an top-of-the-line, cracker-produced, DRM-busting hyper-cable, and subtley 're-direct' the flow of audio, into an 'audio recording device'. Or, more ingeniously, back into the computer, and into an 'audio recording application'.
Mum's the word.
wonderful (Score:2, Funny)
NO (Score:1, Funny)
Re:i bet (Score:5, Funny)
We have you surrounded (Score:4, Funny)
You are in violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Come out with your hands up, bend over, this won't hurt a bit.
What's in a name (Score:1, Funny)
Microsoft Urge
Products to write your name in the snow.
Re:i bet (Score:4, Funny)
Screw friends, just hook the audio out to the audio in on your own computer!
Re:i bet (Score:5, Funny)
Re:i bet (Score:3, Funny)
Then I touched my ears, and they were both bleeding...
Re:i bet (Score:4, Funny)
Coincidentally (Score:3, Funny)
Re:When I hear the name 'Urge', I think of... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:i bet (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, MS will be requiring you to use HDCP for this too, via a HDMI connection. If you do not have a secure digital connection, fear not: you will be able to hear the kazoo rendition just fine.
Re:Not so much... (Score:2, Funny)
This is business. The point of the business is to extract the money from the customers. MS demonstrates understanding of this principle very clearly.
Everything - and I mean EVERYTHING - has some sort of incompatible, misconfigured, hard-to-use "Rights Management" software/encryption/whatever.
It works for the owners(*). Your opinion is not important here, as you're the sucker here, not anyone important(**).
Here is what I want. [lunatic ravings cut for brevity]
And I want a pony.
The point being, I'll sooner have dozen ponies and ninja pirate robot monkeys to guard them than you'll have media corps even considering scheme similar to yours...
(* owners = owners of Imaginary Property rights, not you, obviously).
(** from the POV of the promoters of this crap)