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Tech: One-click overturned, WinXP, more...

updated 09:00 am EST, Thu February 15, 2001

 
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Morning tech news: An appeals court has overturned a preliminary injunction that prevented Barnes & Noble from using one-click purchasing technology that Amazon claims it owns the patent for (Apple is the only company thus far to license the technology from Amazon); building on an already hefty list of controversial features, Windows XP will reportedly contain a feature that will prevent so-called pirated audio files from being played; Pixar CEO Steve Jobs believes the company will soon be able to produce one film each year; video game companies have filed lawsuits against three individuals accused of running Web sites that distribute legacy ROMs, which can be played with emulators; and Paul Allen's investment firm Vulcan Ventures has sold its hefty stake in Priceline.com, an SEC filing revealed.


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    EXCELLENT!

    Prevent pirated audio files? i.e. MP3's of copyrighted music? HAHAH

    This is great, you can rest assured, this Xp boat is gonna sink before it sets sale.

    I cant wait to get all those great songs, oh wait I cant with Windows? Hmmm OSX anyone?

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    Pirate bias

    Why is the phrase "so-called" used to describe the pirated audio files?

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    so-called

    Because it will likely prevent a user with a legal CD copy of the music from playing their MP3-encoded version of the song without paying some royalty or using some special verification tool at the encoding process (meaning all those users who have already encoded their CD collections will now have to re-encode everything and go through a couple extra hurdles as well).

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    well.

    my dad pirates CDs and MP3s. this is going to alienate ALOT of people. good move microsoft.

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    we're microsoft.

    we're going to tell you what to have on your computer by bundling it with every system sold in the land. were going to make our programs un-deleteable. now we're going to be the police too. haha

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    Ignorance

    Read the Wired article that The Register writer Luis Escalante's article refers to, but Luis apparently did not fully comprehend. So if you are posting based on the so-called knowledge that you gained from his writing then I'd have to say that SAP process does not work the way you think.

    I am glad that the Internet provides us with so many different news sources, but it is sad to see so many people who believe everything that they read. Whoever posted the MacNN news item expressed their ignorance by using the term "so-called" as the previous poster quietly points out; apparently MacNN either did not read or did not understand the Wired article either - unless they are just intentionally spreading the ignorance.

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    Bad Microsoft. Bad Bill

    Shame on Microsoft for trying to stop people from violating copyrights. Here in America we should be given the freedom to steal whatever we want without interference from big, rich, monopolistic companies. Since when is it Bill Gates job to try to enforce the law?

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    SAP is proprietary

    If you don't use Windows Media Player then SAP is irrelevant. So just do not use Windows media Player; it sucks anyway. SAP will only work if content providers buy into it; they will not buy into it if Windows Media Player does not have sufficient marketshare (or if Microsoft pays them to implement it).

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    XP

    SAP may be proprietary, but Media Player is being built-in to Windows (not just a program running on windows). As such, and the fact that THEY control the hardware interfaces, the OS can tell if any MP3 files are being played (by how its accessing the drivers) and check for verifcation (or send out its stream of noise to prevent duplication).

    One way or another, it don't matter. MP3s aren't disappearing. More people would just stick with the OS version they got.

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