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[News] Microsoft Puts Its Future Eggs in Digital Restrictions Mess

Ballmer finally admits the obvious: Zune's DRM is Microsoft?s future

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| However, in an interview this week with Knowledge@Wharton, Microsoft
| CEO Steve Ballmer finally admits on the record that the Zune DRM
| system is the one in which Microsoft's putting its future eggs.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=204


Related:

The Longest Suicide Note in History

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| On the same podcast Gutmann scotched suggestions Microsoft were held
| to ransom by Hollywood;
| 
| [...]
| 
| The genie's out of the bottle before the operating system has even
| been released! But that doesn't mean Vista users in particular - and
| the computer community at large - won't end up paying for Microsoft's
| DRM folly. At the risk of repeating myself repeating myself, yet
| another reason to move to Linux.
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http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2007/01/the_longest_suicide_note_in_hi.html


Big labels are f*cked, and DRM is dead - Peter Jenner

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| Few people know the music industry better than Peter Jenner. Pink
| Floyd's first manager, who subsequently managed Syd Barrett's solo
| career, Jenner has also looked after T.Rex, The Clash, Ian Dury,
| Disposable Heroes and Billy Bragg - who he manages today. He's also
| secretary general of the International Music Managers Forum.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/03/peter_jenner/

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