[ILUG] No Music for Linux :-(

Conor Daly conor.daly_ilug at cod.homelinux.org
Tue Sep 13 12:24:32 IST 2005


On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 10:49:48AM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Proinnsias Breathnach thought:
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 11:35:25AM +0200, Rory Browne wrote:
> <snip> 
> > I wonder how long
> > it will take record companies to realise that the collective work of
> > millions of worldwide crackers is more powerful than any anti-linux
> > measures that they can come up with.

Anyway, it's not anti-linux.  It's that MS are actively promoting DRM in
their software and legislature.  They're the obvious partner for such
distribution...
 
> That's the cold, hard, business logic behind these decisions. It's got
> very little to do with DRM or with bias towards windows/against

But everyone knows us linux geeks are all crackers and out to break all
the DRM stuff...

Conor
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