Date: ue 4/10/2001 3:40 PM
From: Dave Head ([email protected])
Subject: Windows XP Hits Home
The XP article conveniently omits the fact that Microsoft has placed a copy protection bomb into its Windows Media Player that, when they get enough recording industry money to do so, they will turn on to degrade the quality of "copy protected" content ("Windows XP Hits Home," Apr. 10, 2001).
This copy-protection nonsense that will keep me from copying the 1 or 2 songs I want on each CD into a 10-hour compilation of MP3's on a CD I can take with me in the car is something I want to oppose at every opportunity. I think that the omission of this "feature" in an article that talks of the advantages of "ripping" a CD with a better Windows Media Player borders on misleading.
I'll not be buying XP or ME or W2K or anything else that's going tointerfere with my home and mobile use of my own music. Linux may turn into the best option yet.
