After takin' a swig o' grog, AZ Nomad belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:43:55 +0100, [H]omer <spam@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> tunebite
>
>>I thought Microsoft's much vaunted Protected Media Path was supposed to
>>lock down the framebuffer and audio bus, to make tools like Tunebite
>>useless, but I just checked the Tunebite forum, and apparently from
>>v4.1.0.31 onwards that's no problem.
>
> If it came to it, any pirate could just string a patchcord from the line-out to
> the line-in of the same or a different computer. What microsoft really needs to
> do is disable the audio audio output. It'll take some extra marketing to
> convince users that they're listening to their favorite DRM content and that
> the silence is somehow 'protecting them'.
"We here at Microsoft think hearing loss is a terrible thing. And so
Microsoft Research has innovated...."
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Hello darkness my old friend/
My Vista box is down again/
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