[plug] MS Curriculum at schools and TAFEs ...

[The Thought Assassin]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Christian wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 02:09:25PM +0800, Beau Kuiper wrote:
> > > ...and when CDs are obsolete and all music is sold in formats decryptable
> > > only under Windows, what will you do then? We should all care about this.
> > Then everything will suck, because you won't be able to use stand-alone
> > players (at least not without wince on it), and the car cd sterio I bought
> > my mum will not work. I will then be sufficiently pissed off that I will
> > refuse to buy any more music. I shall tape it off the radio and burn
> > it to cds :-)
> Don't worry Beau, the new (hardware) players for this 'CDng' will have
> the decryption keys hard-wired into them (c.f. DVD players) so you won't
> have to resort to burning CDs off the radio.

He still won't be able to play them on the old stereo.
He still won't be able to play them on his new Linux computer.

-Greg Mildenhall