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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://msmvps.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>EXCLUSIVE: Windows Media DRM 10 Crack Updates. It's Real!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx</link><description>Follow up to Windows Media DRM10 Cracked? And Update For DRM-Enabled Media Players (KB891122) Many news sites are now reporting that “Japanese hackers discovered a potential weakness in its copy protection technology”. In case anyone would like to know</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)</generator><item><title>Mesothelioma WebLog  &amp;raquo; Blog Archive   &amp;raquo; Blog archive</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#1046478</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:03:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:1046478</guid><dc:creator>Mesothelioma WebLog  » Blog Archive   » Blog archive</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Pingback from &amp;nbsp;Mesothelioma WebLog &amp;nbsp;&amp;amp;raquo; Blog Archive &amp;nbsp; &amp;amp;raquo; Blog archive&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1046478" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: EXCLUSIVE: Windows Media DRM 10 Crack Updates. It Is Real!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#171337</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:11:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:171337</guid><dc:creator>Ch3ckM4t3r</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Que putas estan diciendo? el *** programa esta en japones.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=171337" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: EXCLUSIVE: Windows Media DRM 10 Crack Updates. It Is Real!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#136264</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:53:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:136264</guid><dc:creator>Simo</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;So, ok that people crack the DRM but if you want to protect Your media, there is a way?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=136264" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: EXCLUSIVE: Windows Media DRM 10 Crack Updates. It Is Real!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#115081</link><pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:16:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:115081</guid><dc:creator>metari</dc:creator><description>How is this a blog?
It seems more like a battle between ***!&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=115081" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>eirikso.com  &amp;amp;amp;raquo; Blog Archive   &amp;amp;amp;raquo; Windows Media DRM - Cracked!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#112428</link><pubDate>Sat, 02 Sep 2006 23:47:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:112428</guid><dc:creator>eirikso.com  » Blog Archive   » Windows Media DRM - Cracked!</dc:creator><description>PingBack from http://www.eirikso.com/2006/09/02/windows-media-drm-cracked/&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=112428" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: EXCLUSIVE: Windows Media DRM 10 Crack Updates. It Is Real!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#109898</link><pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2006 20:28:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:109898</guid><dc:creator>El Pibo d'Oro</dc:creator><description>&amp;quot;Any posts asking for the files will be deleted without notice.&amp;quot; Here it comes: if anyone has the files, please send them at lol@nowhere.com.&lt;br&gt;And if Chris will remove my post, I absolutely demand a notice. I really need the notice. Send the notice at chris@is.embarrasing.com :)&lt;br&gt;Try eMule and ed2k://|file|Drmdbg.zip|595239|FA956E9F02C633AF6B49742B584492BD|/&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=109898" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>Windows Media DRM 11 Crack Again - Real N Reality</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#108573</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:34:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:108573</guid><dc:creator>menatekera</dc:creator><description>&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=865067#post865067"&gt;http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=865067#post865067&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=108573" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: EXCLUSIVE: Windows Media DRM 10 Crack Updates. It Is Real!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#104841</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2006 07:09:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:104841</guid><dc:creator>snake</dc:creator><description>thanx. i got it.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=104841" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: EXCLUSIVE: Windows Media DRM 10 Crack Updates. It Is Real!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#104275</link><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:28:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:104275</guid><dc:creator>Mike Huang</dc:creator><description>Hi:&lt;br&gt;I could located your crack file, will you tell me the URL for downloading it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=104275" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: EXCLUSIVE: Windows Media DRM 10 Crack Updates. It Is Real!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#97584</link><pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 07:28:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:97584</guid><dc:creator>John</dc:creator><description>Here is the solution to this annoying problem. If I LEGALLY purchase a porno I FUCKING SHOULD BE ABLE TO VIEW IT WHEN I WANT...my 2 cents, thanx&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/thanks.aspx?ln=en&amp;amp;&amp;amp;thankspage=5"&gt;http://update.microsoft.com/windowsupdate/v6/thanks.aspx?ln=en&amp;amp;&amp;amp;thankspage=5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=97584" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: EXCLUSIVE: Windows Media DRM 10 Crack Updates. It Is Real!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#95360</link><pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2006 00:26:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:95360</guid><dc:creator>kubik256</dc:creator><description>This technology sucks... and it will be broken soon!!! Anyway it's not illegal to do something to break this *** :)))))&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;BRegards :)&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=95360" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: EXCLUSIVE: Windows Media DRM 10 Crack Updates. It Is Real!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#93577</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2006 10:46:50 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:93577</guid><dc:creator>Kode</dc:creator><description>Check this link &lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.lockstockmods.net/readarticle.php?article_id=21"&gt;http://www.lockstockmods.net/readarticle.php?article_id=21&lt;/a&gt; it includes a guide on how to remove DRM for the purpose of Fair Use, and includes all the files needed&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=93577" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: EXCLUSIVE: Windows Media DRM 10 Crack Updates. It Is Real!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#84222</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:00:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:84222</guid><dc:creator>James</dc:creator><description>I like in the UK too and will answer your questions as if you were a newbie&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1. it is illegal because that's what the law says, no more, no less. It is also illegal to drink under a certain age and grow cannibis. You may disagree with the law, so break it, as many throughout history have done in the past and will no doubt continue to do so in the future. It is illegal to rip to mp3, but is it morally wrong? We each must decide for ourselves.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2. ditto cracking CSS. The law says you can't. Either obey the law or don't, the choice is yours.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;3. a mp3 player is exactly what it says it is, a player that plays mp3's!! The term has unfortunately been used to cover playing non-mp3 files including protected ones. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You are right about the quality - a CD is high quality, and most purchased downloaded music is compressed to about 1/20 of the size of the size on CD, and thus sounds bog-awful on a high quality stereo system. Fortunately the quality of the headphones and DACs on most mp3 players is so poor that it sounds crap whatever you put through it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;4. the music won't play on his computer because that's what the licence says and the drm enforces! If you don't like it, don't buy it, just get the music in mp3 format elsewhere eg file sharing systems or CD rips.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;5. yes, ipods allow transfer of music ONTO the ipod but not off it. It enforces this pretty well !! One cannot but help admire the technology behind this concept! That's what it does - it doesn't allow transfer off and it doesn't make tea either. I advise not buying it!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In all cases, you have a problem, and a solution. the solution is in all cases to avoid the commercial music downloads, and apple completely, and buy an ordinary mp3 player and keep all yur music in mp3 format. Easy!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Oh, and don't tell anyone as you are breaking the law.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=84222" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: EXCLUSIVE: Windows Media DRM 10 Crack Updates. It Is Real!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#78337</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:24:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:78337</guid><dc:creator>chrisl</dc:creator><description>Come on R3LOADED... I know you can come up with better examples than that for how we Americans are hypocrits.  My real critique has to do with your thougths about the nukes.  We don't want other countries to make nukes... what do they need them for?  You're right, we do have more nukes than the rest of the world combined, but we are dissarming, we have way less than we did during the Cold War... plus, it's not like we can just chuck them all in the ocean to get rid of them, it does take time, and we're getting there.  I do agree with you that we have in recent years imposed a lot of our ways on other parts of the world without first asking the World's permission... I don't know what can be done about that now, sorry, our bad.  Also, you're right, a ton of stuff that is legal and you should be able to do you can't any more thanks to all the &amp;quot;protection&amp;quot; that goes into MP3 creation these days.  My advice to you... if you want all your old functionality, you gotta stick with your old technology.  iPod is known to be bad about being used to transfer music, so know before you buy it that it can't be used that way.  If you want to give songs and your old music to friends - be old fasioned, buy the CD, just like you used to!  Same goes for&lt;br&gt;your beef with Napster not giving you as high-quality music, you know the CD isn't going to sound like crap, so go buy it and don't be so lazy you have to use Napster!  Lastly, you can't transfer all sorts of media (DVDs and audio) to your computer legally because once it's on your computer it's too easy to share and rip off the production industry.  Don't blame America or Microsoft for that, blame human nature, or more specifically the crackers of the world - if they hadn't gone around sharing the stuff illegally with their computers in the first place it never would have come to this.  So now all your left with is the decision I've made.  I like digital media and I don't want to have all sorts of prevention crap associated with it... &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;SOLUTION: you have to go a little techie.  You have to know some stuff about DRM and you have to know where to look to find software to crack all of the industry's protections off your media.  The newer pretection technologies are getting better and better and the tougher they get, the more technical you have to be in order to get your way with new media - lay&lt;br&gt;people are forced to abide by all the restrictions laid down by DRM and Microsoft, it sucks, deal.  You have a choice, make it and quit complaining, it's called America, not Utopia.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=78337" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: EXCLUSIVE: Windows Media DRM 10 Crack Updates. It Is Real!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#77176</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:57:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:77176</guid><dc:creator>chrisl</dc:creator><description>yes it works, but how do one decripts wma without valid licence?&lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=77176" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: EXCLUSIVE: Windows Media DRM 10 Crack Updates. It Is Real!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#76779</link><pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2005 02:28:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:76779</guid><dc:creator>chrisl</dc:creator><description>Interesting reading about RIGHTS of copyright owners in light of the XCP &amp;quot;Sony rootkit&amp;quot; incedent. It seems these CD's may have first appeared as early as MAY or JUNE and have been hiding DRM files on users machines for months.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What RIGHTS do they have to secretly install DRM ? Granted this was only ONE label and could be called an isolated incident. However consider this&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;- Noone told you at the music shop &amp;quot;that installs DRM software embedded in the player&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And in THIS case, noone said &amp;quot;oh btw that will install a rootkit and leave your PC vulnerable to....&amp;quot; &amp;quot;so do you still want to buy it?&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;OH the irony.. &lt;br&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=76779" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>DRM and DMCA: Problems for the consumer and how they are part of a wider problem.</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#74647</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2005 21:43:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:74647</guid><dc:creator>chrisl</dc:creator><description>Just wondering about the DMCA from the point of view of a lay man living the the States (thank god I live in the UK!). Please answer these questions as though I was a newbie:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;1. Why is ripping a CD into mp3 format on my computer (because I like my media centralized on a single network hard disk) illegal? It's my CD - and I'm not sharing it with anyone.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;2. Similarly, why is cracking CSS on my DVDs to centralize my films onto the same hard disk illegal? Same again, I own the DVD and I'm not giving anyone a copy.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;3. I bought an iRiver H120 at around Christmas 2003 (side note: it doesn't play DRM). Why does a song off a CD (bought from a store) which I converted to mp3 format play on it, yet the exact same song off MSN Music/Napster doesn't play? Napster said on the adverts that you can &amp;quot;download music to your mp3 player&amp;quot; yet I have an mp3 player (remember, I'm just Mr. Joe Average, I don't understand DRM). Also, the song off Napster wasn't as good quality-wise as the one off the CD.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;4. I'm bored of a certain album. In the past, I'd give the CD (original!) to a friend as a Christmas present. Now that I've bought my music online, why can't I do the same now? The music just won't play on his computer.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;5. I have an iPod. I'm also a guitar-player in my spare time and have recorded a few tracks of my own. I want to send them to my friend and to save time, I copy the tracks over to my iPod and go round to his house (he has an iPod and iTunes too). As soon as I plug my iPod in to get my recorded tracks, iTunes on his computer simply deletes all my files! Apparently, its to &amp;quot;to stop me pirating music&amp;quot;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It's things like these which simply complicates the user experience. Ironically, Microsoft's vision is of integrating people with their digital media with instant ease!!!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Also, I reckon that laws such as the DMCA are being passed by the ridiculously-dumb neo-cons in the States. They seem to have an ingrained belief that whatever America does is the right thing and the world should follow suit (in our case, DMCA-style laws. Another example is the Iraq war, but that's going off-topic.) They are the fanatics who claim that since the &amp;quot;American Dream&amp;quot; and democracy is so good, other countries should be forced to oblige and have similar styles of government. Sounds just like Al-Qaeda and the Muslim fanatics, doesn't it?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't want to go into politics too deeply, but this discussion on DRM and DMCA just shows that they are actually a small portion of the problem. Just look at the hypocritical stance on nukes - while they condemn Iran and North Korea for making nukes (or even daring to), America has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons, and is the only country to have used them. These go to show how ingrained this line of thinking has entered and poisoned America, the belief that &amp;quot;we're better than the rest of the world and should therefore be policing it&amp;quot;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Btw, apologies to any Americans who feel they were being unfairly attacked there - I'm only after the idiots who run your otherwise great country. Lastly - some advice to all: don't trust companies and governments too much. Need proof? Read about the discovery of Sony's XCD rootkit (well, that's what it is).&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=74647" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: EXCLUSIVE: Windows Media DRM 10 Crack Updates. It Is Real!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#74564</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2005 04:37:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:74564</guid><dc:creator>chrisl</dc:creator><description>All the politics and cant won't make any difference to the truth, and that is that DRM is ill conceived, an infringment of personal rights and will soon result in billions of dollars of losses in sales of music, media and mp3 hardware etc. And the companies will have to bear the brunt of their own idiocy.&lt;br&gt;I am a 57 year old writer who writes for money. In over 30 years my work has been copied, duplicated, shared and distributed by thousands of people... and I have become the better off for it. My recordings and talks have been downloaded and used by writers groups and individuals and I am grateful for all it has brought me. Whether I am the 'voice of reason' or not amongst some of this unintelligable posting, here is my personal view. I have many hundreds of CD's ( I listen to them while I work.) For a number of years now I have searched out new artists, records, performances, and quite often made a quick download to see if I like the material. Then out to the shop with totebag over my arm and several hundred dollars to spend on cd's. Occassionally I might download a hard to find song .... Paul Anka (doh?) simply because I can't buy it anywhere and my hard drive has a nice library.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sad to say I haven't bought a CD since I ONCE tried to play a Lucinda Williams song from a Filmore Album I really wanted to buy (IF I liked the downloaded song). Since DRM a whole lot of my stuff won't play even though I went and bought the album and put it on my mp3 player. I feel cheated and disgusted... And I guess the problem lies not with the companies but with the artists. I would never sell my work to any company that will not allow my work to be freely distributed. It's MY choice. And so it should be the artists choice. But is this arbitary? I don't know. I am a writer not a technician. &lt;br&gt;I will never buy another CD and if it was just me alone then we are talking roughly about $12000 a year (AUD). My simple pleasures have been stolen from me by DRM.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;All this hacking and cracking is beyond me. But now I feel like a criminal. I downloaded songs I loved, bought the CD and sent the song on to several friends who I knew would have loved them. Now I encourage my friends NEVER to buy another CD that involves DRM. How much loss is that to companies? A lot! &lt;br&gt;Sales of MP3 will plummet of course! &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;DRM is sadly, a greedy, badly thought out concept that in the end will not work out. Of course companies will bleat and moan that sales of CD's and Mp3 players etc have dropped,, and they will blame downloading on their foolishness. Pygmies! Fools! Charlatans! &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I came to this forum because part of what I do is research for writers, publishers etc, having been asked to write a piece on DRM. Knowing little about it except that it stood for Digital Rights Management sent me in search of information. Not that I have actually got much from this forum except a couple of nice quotes and a lot of righteous indignation. (I suppose I am now righteously indignant too!)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I want my personal freedoms back. I don't want to download and send on to millions. All I want to do is to hear a song. On my computer if possible, make a note to buy the CD and then go my own way, minding my own business and maybe send the song to a few friends with encouragement to buy it.. I can't do that anymore... By US law I am a criminal now. (I was never a criminal before!) I am a thief, and guilty of such a grave crime that my punishment will be thousands of dollars. (Maybe the companies will make up their losses in criminal actions.) &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Frankly I hope someone does crack DRM. Maybe in todays world anarchy has some merit. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't WANT to go to websites and download pay per use music. Firstly I haven't the time to do that. Secondly I don't have the bandwidth to allow for it. Thirdly, I want to buy my music and keep it to play as and how I want to and to do it where and when I want to, and I want to share the joy of finding a new album with my friends, some of whom live in USA, Canada, Britain, Germany, Belgium among other places. I want to be able to send a file via Skype to my friends and co-authors so that we can discuss and evaluate material. To some extent I can still do that. But not to the extent I could, and I accuse all those supporters of DRM... you have infringed on MY rights as an individual .&lt;br&gt;Recently some text of mine was published by the World Bank in a text book on English as a Second Language. I declined to be paid for it, and the book is available to students in Moldovia. There are plans to produce this work digitally. Will it be protected by DRM I wonder... and if it is, then MY work will be protected against redistribution against my wishes. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Dora Graham &lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=74564" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: EXCLUSIVE: Windows Media DRM 10 Crack Updates. It Is Real!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#71245</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:25:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:71245</guid><dc:creator>chrisl</dc:creator><description>The last post makes me feel identified (i'm over 30) .&lt;br&gt; As a service tech for electronics, DJ and programming aficionado i can see the things in three diferent points of view, as a tech, i know there is ways of &amp;quot;ripping&amp;quot; info from digital sources maybe they will not be as good as the original but who cares for a song that is a hit now and will be garbage in 2 months? as a DJ a mysel f had produced songs that i would liked to be paid for, but since i make music for love not for money i feel proud when somebody wants to share them. As a computer geek i know that tomorrow or two days from now DRM will be crack and you know why?, because mafias and power cannot fight that need to Know, that feeling of challenge that every code posses for a hacker, when that will be killed we will not be free anymore just paid slaves.&lt;br&gt; Besides, i don't see that RIAA or S0#Y music  or anyone of them are closing down because of piracy, ijust that  their ambition is so big.&lt;br&gt; As DataHippy posted i'd rather save those bucks for a local band, perhaps, thanks to DRM we all will re-learn what music is &lt;br&gt;ART, PASSION, LIFE.&lt;br&gt; Peace&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=71245" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: EXCLUSIVE: Windows Media DRM 10 Crack Updates. It Is Real!</title><link>http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2005/02/16/36147.aspx#67967</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:57:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">d67277c4-116b-43f1-b688-e9ef184ea916:67967</guid><dc:creator>chrisl</dc:creator><description>From what I've seen, DRM'd works aren't worth owning anyway (mostly just sh**ty rap music/videos/pop culture movies). REAL artists will not restrict the sharing of their works, I understand the need for financial gain to live, but that's what being a bohemian is all about, &amp;quot;doing without&amp;quot; is the way you MUST live in this system if you really want to share a piece of your soul with millions. Shame on the corporations for removing the art from culture...oh, and aren't you supposed to make your money off of CONCERTS or THEATRICAL RELEASE (for films), instead of owning copies...you can't clone the physical band yet, so don't worry about it 'till then. My generation has forgotten its roots and is a slave to the media, I really do appologize to anyone over 30, as the days of mass-high quality-media are over. You have to look to the underground to get anything that'll expand your experiences.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;DRM is just another yuppie invention, I don't believe it will last as it is using proprietary media formats rather than UNIVERSAL IEEE formats such as mpg (xvid/divx etc)/mp3...please don't mess with real engineers, they're tryign to make things work, not complicate the process, remember the KISS rule (Keep It Simple Stupid).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go pay 5$ to see 5 bands play at the bar now, and I'll enjoy it much more than your trendy rubbish.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://msmvps.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=67967" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>