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The molly rant! (and XBOX 360 DRM)

by sibod Dec 12, 2005 1:05AM PST

I love it when Molly rants! She gets all incomrehensible and angry! Happy

Seriously - I agree with most of your rants, but the rant about transferring MP3s to the XBOX hard drive is a little unfair as MS do have to play by the MPAA rules too. Streaming or ripping direct from a CD does have the assurance, at least as the RIAA or whatever are concerned, that you have an original source (CD, or DRM download).

I know it's not fair, but this is the way these big corperates work.

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No kidding.
by Jasmes Dec 12, 2005 6:59AM PST

We all know thats how the "big coperates" work, but the point is that they shouldn't have to work like that -- under the assumption that the consumer is criminal by default.

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Legal MP3s
by AndyInTN Dec 12, 2005 7:06AM PST

Ok, what about music from sites such as dmusic, epitonic, or Common Tunes (and others)? They can be legally downloaded in MP3 format. Those don't have anything to do with the RIAA or MPAA, that I know of.

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Another reason not to directly buy media from the internet
by arshield Dec 12, 2005 8:10AM PST

If you legally purchased mp3s from the internet and downloaded them, instead of buying the cd then you can't transfer them to the hard drive. That means that the corporation is preventing you from using your legal property. That is going beyond stopping piracy, it is just keeping the guys in power, in power.

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Microsoft
by shantanubala Dec 12, 2005 9:57AM PST

If you're Bill Gates using your 43 billion dollar head, you would want more money, and the Xbox is popular enough to cause a riot and people being robbed at gunpoint. I know I would make it the coolest gizmo in the world, even if it isn't as good as it looks. (i.e. crashing and stuff)To make the most money possible.. It only makes sense to make your hard drive be compatible with mp3s.

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Burn and Re-Rip?
by Wilf_Brim Dec 13, 2005 3:52AM PST

What is to stop people from buring to CD (or CD-RW, to be economical), then taking that to the 360 and ripping that? Yea, this is an additional step and is a pain in the ***, but is should work.

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sure it'll work, but...
by adam8281 Dec 13, 2005 4:09AM PST

but the point is that the Xbox 360 as a MEDIA SERVER should have this capability. I mean, with the original Xbox you could rip CDs to the HDD if you physically inserted them, but the 360 is supposed to go beyond that and be a media server. It makes no sense to not be able to transfer WHATEVER files you want to its HDD.

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MS is cowed
by Wilf_Brim Dec 13, 2005 12:20PM PST

MS pretty much toes to RIAA and MPAA line on this stuff. They are scared that the MPAA will be mean to them or something. They can't be scared of their money or lawyers, MS has way more of both.

So, they do stuff like this so they can't be accused of "encouraging piracy".

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