Microsoft Patents Method To Hijack Your MP3's

[GhostShip]

Yet another scheme folks for MS to get into the pay-per-play schemes currently doing the rounds amongst the fat cats.

http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/07/microsoft-paten.html

A patent filed by Microsoft last December shows that Microsoft and Apple are thinking along the same lines when it comes to enabling users to copy music between their wireless devices.

Microsoft's patented idea would take the concept further, by allowing users to trade MP3s that may have come from file sharing networks to one another, expiring the song on the recipient's device after three plays, unless the user pays Microsoft a fee in order to continue to listen to the track, with a percentage going to the person who provided the song.  As the abstract puts it, "even [the] resale of pirated media content [can] benefit... the copyright holder."

This mechanism for timing out traded music without payment is the sort of constraint the RIAA probably wishes had been built into the personal computer.

Yet another anti consumer feature to be introduced to steal from consumers, how stupid are these people ??

[dan2006]

Its all about money with Microshaft isnt it, never mind that they built the worst, least secure OS in the world (xp), they should be ashamed.

They will never get a penny outta me

[SamSeeSam]

* SamSeeSam thinks that if this goes through, then people will simply trash vista (which they are already doing) and move to linux

And you'll probably get a hack to disable it even before the update fr the same is released

Cheers

[ñòóKýçrÕôK]

Yet another method that big business says "We will give you what we want to give you REGARDLESS if you like it or not as our consumer!" Unfortunately it is a worsening trend in business that they do what THEY want to and not what the consumers of their products want.