Pepin
join:2003-01-05
New Port Richey, FL
1 edit | Call me Old Fashoined
But I just Borrow the CD's and DVD's that I want... and then rip what I want... no P2P here...
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technick
Premium
join:2000-12-16
Loganville, GA |  Heres one!
Don't download windows media audio! Its that simple, in all my years of downloading music, even back from 1995, ive seen tons of formats come, and go. Mp3 still hangs around, and there's a reason. Its good! |
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oliphant
I Have 8 Boobies
Premium
join:2004-11-26
Corona, CA | Which is why to avoid...
the windows media formats, whether audio or video. It's the same crap with video by exploiting/using the windows music/video licensing feature to deliver popups. |
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technick
Premium
join:2000-12-16
Loganville, GA
| I have a buddy that downloads tons of pr0n off of usenet, and some of the videos he downloads has the popup crap in the media license management. The popup's consume the whole screen, the only way to close is Alt+F4, and sometimes killing iexplorer.exe.
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steven s
Premium
join:2002-09-14
Dearborn, MI | Haaa
One more reason not to use MS formats. |
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ParanoiaInc
join:2002-08-28
Tucker, GA
| Uh, how about one more reason to stop stealing music on P2P networks. The article said nothing about legitimate music sold in WMA as being compromised, but rather music d/l off of P2P networks.
And if you are dumb enough to download copyrighted material you didn't pay for off of P2P networks you deserve to get what is coming to you. |
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ParanoiaInc
join:2002-08-28
Tucker, GA
| But my music player doesn't support popups!
So, how many people are using portable music players with music they own (whether purchased online or ripped from music they own in disk-form) that has a problem? If I read the article correctly, its only music being d/l from P2P networks. And unless your portable music player supports popups (mine doesn't, or at least not that I know of), its a moot effort on their part. |
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Underplay
join:2003-10-19
Tacoma, WA | Filthy
The MPAA is just as bad as the piraters...same with the RIAA, there all greedy bastards along with the musicians. They can all goto hell because SHARING on the internet is going to last forever. |
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Derch
Premium
join:2004-10-16
Tulsa, OK | Spybot or Adaware?
I didn't see any mention of anti-spyware programs. I wonder how they would recognize the threat. |
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steven s
Premium
join:2002-09-14
Dearborn, MI | reply to ParanoiaInc
Re: Haaa
Sorry, I prefer not to pay to thefts known as the RIAA and MPAA. |
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
 ·Qwest.net
1 edit | Oh My...
Why am I not surprised it is a windows product that gets nailed with this exploit. I do not like WMA because of the way it does track tags. Ogg, and Ape ate my favorites.
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M_is_l33t
@comcast.net | LOL
M$ Windoze Media Files are a joke! I'm surprized that it stuck around for this long.
The Micro$oft fanboys keeps insisting on them. |
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pike
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-01
Cleveland, OH
clubs:
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·AT&T Midwest
1 edit | Who?
Who downloads any other format besides MP3 anyway? duh.
Regardless, if you use a properly secured browser (yes even IE can be configured properly if you take the time) this would never be a problem. And always run WMP in the Restricted Zone.
-Mike
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electric_dsl
join:2004-07-20
Pickering, ON | reply to Transmaster
Re: Oh My...
It isn't an exploit.
Its misuse of a known feature. |
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steven s
Premium
join:2002-09-14
Dearborn, MI | That's MS for you. Create useless features, forget useful features. |
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electric_dsl
join:2004-07-20
Pickering, ON | Useless to who? Maybe to you but I am sure there are lots of people that use the features in Windows that you might think are useless and visa versa.
If you don't like them remove or disable it. Simple. |
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Transmaster
Don't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY
·Qwest.net
1 edit | reply to electric_dsl
said by electric_dsl  :It isn't an exploit. Its misuse of a known feature. And there is a difference from the end user's point of view?
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electric_dsl
join:2004-07-20
Pickering, ON | Of course.
One can be easily and totally prevented by using menus etc.
The other requires patchs and more advanced to fix. |
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tparker1
join:2004-09-29
Winston Salem, NC
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Re: Who?
Why do people download MP3's? I think they are falling into a big trap and the trap is Inferior Quality anyone that has heard a good recording will tell you that anything short of RedBook Laser Standard is not worth listening to Redbook is 320 kbp/s some of the Mp3's are 128,192 which to me sounds terrible.it is a good thing that a lot of people are getting them for free because they aren't worth paying for.I buy the CD's I like and put them on my I-Pod without degrading the quality only penalty is I can't get as many songs on it.I would rather listen to one album at full audio bandwidth than have 1000 watered down songs.It wasn't long ago that DAT Players were put to rest over not having the quality of a CD.They are geting people used to downloading Music at Inferior Quality and eventually people will have to buy it from the likes of I-tunes,Napster so they make more profit from their Music they don't have to open a store so the Overhead is a lot lower.I just hope that there are still some of us that want Quality over Quanity that was the way Music was Intended to listen to.DVD Audio has almost Perfect sound with 24 Bit 192Khz hopefully people buy into it.I came from old School where we were always buying new Equipment trying to get that Perfect Sound from our Systems and when i read now they are closing sites that have Mp3's that most are only 128 Kbp's they are doing people a favor by closing them besides Joe Sixpack and any Audio Lover if they started a few Years ago have enough music to last a Lifetime.Someone will come up with a way to share Songs and Movies when Bittorrent and E-mule and Company are taken down just give them time.I-Tunes,Napster songs are Proprioritory to their Player where CD's will play in anything I am not falling into that trap where i have to use someone else's Player forever i don't care that the songs are .99 cents each and Albums are 9.99. |
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RDins
@attbi.com
| The thing is, wma formats are very good. Smaller then mp3 but very good quality. I still prefer mp3 though since its a standard format that doesn't have crap built into it like that. Even when I purchase music, if they don't have mp3 (or an option to convert to it) then I won't purchase. |
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