[ILUG] No Music for Linux :-(

[Rory Browne]

[snip]
> I wonder is it anything to do with DRM [1]?  Obviously us linux geeks are not
> going to respect their attempts to prevent us listening to _their_ music.
> I don't imagine they'll be supporting linux anytime soon...

If they don't someone else will, perhaps illegally. I wonder how long
it will take record companies to realise that the collective work of
millions of worldwide crackers is more powerful than any anti-linux
measures that they can come up with.

All we need to do is look at the Xbox-Linux project to see that if
Microsoft had signed a linux bootloader they would have avoided
worldwide teams of researchers cracking the machine, which (as a
side-effect) resulted in the relatively easy use of "backups".


> 
> Conor
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> [1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ebooks.html
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