The Times today carries a piece (free at the moment, but likely to become subscription only) describing how the music industry, through its trade bodies, is lobbying Microsoft to include methods to prevent people from copying music in the new version of Windows – codenamed Longhorn.
“One of the possible improvements that has been mooted would involve the computer operating system recognising copy protection rules that have been embedded on a CD, including any limits on how many times a song can be copied and whether it can be uploaded on to the internet.”
Well that’s going to make the next revision of Windows more attractive to me isn’t it? I’m not going to be able to play CDs as easily, and rip them as I want. I’m not quite sure how some of these limitations are going to work, but somehow Linux becomes ever more attractive.