On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:35:12 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
[snip]
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Here's why... and this is also why I wanted to post this warning: The
> | latest versions of Microsoft's Windows Media Player have been doing |
> something very bad. They've incorporated a sub-routine that Microsoft |
> has been very quiet about and it has to do with something called |
> "Digital Rights Management" (DRM).
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | DO NOT OPEN UP ANY AUDIO FILES FROM YOUR GAMES IN WINDOWS MEDIA |
> PLAYER. Use some other (and preferably older) MP3 player instead. | If
> you open them in WMP, you'll risk ruining your game's audio files. | I
> learned this the hard way... but you don't have to. `----
>
> http://nwn2forums.bioware.com/forums/viewtopic.html?topic=573006&forum=109
>
> Whether it's true or not, you decide.
?? This isn't something one can just 'decide' from hearsay - but it's
easily checked:
- Get WMP11
- Create a directory with copies of MP3 files
- Get sizes, MD5sums or whatever of these files
- Play failes with WMP11
- Compare sizes, MD5sums etcetera.
Anything changed? -> Kill Microsoft.
Richard Rasker
--
http://www.linetec.nl/
|
|
