Posted by RichardK on 11/17/98 11:48

fred-bloggs wrote:

>>I can see absolutely no benefit whatsoever in having WMA-DRM. It's a
>>proprietary format with very few worthwhile sources and certainly not
>>something one would encode by choice. Or purchase by choice.
>>
>
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> So when, hypothetically, the Beatles release their music on Urge(MTV) you
> wouldn't want to have the choice of downloading it onto your Ipod?

I hate the Beatles. I'm not 60, I'm not a hippy, and I'm not someone who
thinks that a bunch of manufactured shite revolutionised music. I hate
their unimaginative 'output', their no-brainer lyrics. I hate their
ubiquity and undeserved respect. If I could erase every memory of a
Beatles track from my mind, I would; especially if it also wiped out
Oasis and all these copycat acts.

Were The Beatles back cataloque to be released in WMA-DRM, I would be
pleased that very little I own could play it.

If I could make a list of people I could shoot for just being annoying,
Paul McCartney would be right next to Ben Elton and Michael Moore.

Unfortunately, I suspect that their turds are going to float to the
surface of iTMS before anything else; McCartney is nothing if not greedy
and utterly lacking in the talent required to produce new material, and
will want to use the most successful outlet.

Richard

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