On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Jim Lux wrote: > MS may be making tons o'bucks, but compared to the movie studios, the music > industry, and cable tv, etc, it's still small.
Which is why MS effectively kowtowed to the "premium" content providers over this, they believed they couldn't risk being locked out of that market, even if it meant releasing an OS that is even more broken than the standard offerings out of Redmond. Now, with people like EMI backing away from DRM because of the consumer backlash (and the fact they can charge a premium for non-DRM tracks which cost less to make with no DRM royalty [1]) I bet there's a few people breaking out in cold sweats in MS.. cheers, Chris [1] - http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070428 -- Christopher Samuel - (03) 9925 4751 - Systems Manager The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing P.O. Box 201, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia VPAC is a not-for-profit Registered Research Agency
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