boingboing.net — The Inquirer's Charlie Demerjian shreds the new Windows Media Player 11 DRM, which is far more restrictive than previous versions. This is the anti-copying built into Microsoft's smart-phones, media centers and PCs
Sep 21, 2006 View in Crawl 4
drewskyjonesSep 21, 2006Submitter
Shameful! Sadly, I'm an MS fanboy...many of their technolgies help me pay my bills, and I enjoy many of their consumer technologies (including XBox). But this craziness is getting, well, crazy. I'm starting to think I should begin looking at other options. It's hard to stay loyal to a company that continually makes it harder to do what I want to do with my media/software, etc. The part about WMP deleting premium TV shows that you record after 3 days is beyond the pale too.
meltingrobotSep 21, 2006
Dude, MythTV. That's all I can say.
zixxerSep 21, 2006
im more of a mac guy nowadays..but this could be history repeating itself..remember the solution to windows ME? upgrade to 98! it might be the same case with Vista and XP....at least for awhile. but we cant say for sure till it comes out.