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New Mot Linux phone touts Windows Media, DRM
linuxdevices.com — Motorola has announced a new mobile phone described as the first Linux-based cellphone to support all of Microsoft's Windows Media technologies. The popularity of Microsoft desktop OSes in the U.S. suggests the MotoRizr Z6 will be the first of Motorola's Linux phones to be distributed here.
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- baalzebub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3a shell script made to rip out the DRM will be ready in 3...2...1...
- GnuTzu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1With the DMCA, doesn't that mean they have to pay licensing fees to Microsoft?
- ibolt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2There also going to go with there own music service, MotoMusic instead of iTunes Store:
Official announcement: http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail.jsp?globalObjectId=7575_7504_23 - motang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sweet, I am in the market for a new phone anyway I might as well get me one of these.
- Maggoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Have I been out of touch recently...
Or is playing DRMd music on Linux new, and kind of cool?
It means I could have my napster account on my Linux PC...I'd be free of windows forever. The only reason I currently use windows is as a rather OTT stereo. The only subscription music service for Linux is rhapsody, but I cannot use that in the UK.
I want one of these. I want one a lot.
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