Website review: The day the music died [dive into m...
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•10 reviews since May 6, 2008
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redneckdriver rated 3 months ago- Microsoft's left hand knows exactly what the right hand is doing: they're both giving you the finger. An interesting article found at slipped's blog. http://slipped.stumbleupon.com/
- Defhamsterjam rated 3 months ago
- NO! The music can't die on my birthday!!! I love music! Fuckers.
- LittlePurr rated 3 months ago
- Damn! Anyone who can rant a cautionary tale about open standards, while referencing Tom Lehrer and Monty Python deserves his thumbs-up!
- billso rated 4 months ago
- On 31 August 2008, Microsoft turns off its DRM license servers for MSN Music purchases. "Plays For Sure" - the files just won't play. From the page: "Bruce Schneier, a famous cryptologist - or at least as famous a cryptologist as cryptologists are likely to get in this century - once described attempts to make digital bits uncopyable as 'trying to make water not wet.'"
- Codebender rated 4 months ago
- "the left hand knows exactly what the right hand is doing: they're both giving you the finger."
- alphadesigner rated 4 months ago
- All the good reasons not to trust the DRM content providers. Well written.
- videoist rated 4 months ago
- From the page: "It was the Dark Ages, around 2004 or so. The iTunes Store was new and booming. Microsoft, in its bid to be the center of everything without having to deal with pesky â€oeend users”, decided that the way to fight Apple was to create a developer platform. ".... Great article :)
- slipped rated 4 months ago
- From the page: So what happens on August 31, 2008? On that day, Microsoft will turn off the servers that they maintain for the sole purpose of validating that the songs that people have already "purchased" through MSN Music are still theirs to play. Those people (hereafter "the victims") will not notice the change right away. The victims will only notice it when they purchase a new computer, or when they upgrade the operating system on their current computer, or when the hard drive in their computer dies and needs to be rebuilt/reinstalled. At that point -- transferring the music files they have "purchased" to another drive or a new computer -- the Microsoft music player running on the victim's PC (like iTunes, but all Microsoft-y instead of Apple-y) will make a call to Microsoft's validation servers to verify that the music files were legitimately purchased. This call will fail, since the servers are not responding, since Microsoft has intentionally turned them off. The Microsoft music player will then conclude, incorrectly but steadfastly, that the music files were downloaded illegally and that the victim is a filthy pirate, and it will refuse to play them. In this case, the left hand knows exactly what the right hand is doing: they're both giving you the finger.
- dekonstruct rated 4 months ago
- From the page: "So what happens on August 31, 2008? On that day, Microsoft will turn off the servers that they maintain for the sole purpose of validating that the songs that people have already â€oepurchased” through MSN Music are still theirs to play. Those people (hereafter â€oethe victims”) will not notice the change right away."
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