What I'm looking for here is an answer. On the one side we have the RIAA admittedly over reaching. But the only "alternative" anybody is willing to propose is some BS variation on the ever popular hacker contention that "information wants to be free" (reread the post I originally replied to, his answer to not having your IP copied was to not store it in a way computers can copy it... clearly a stupid answer). Stupid? No. Practical. My point was that if you make your music, data, software, etc. available in a form that can be copied by a computer, it will be copied.
The answer to the problem isn't to give Microsoft and hordes of greedy lawyers control over what can and can't be done with my computer. You may be perfectly happy with these people controlling your computer, I'm not. I use other solutions because they work better for me, and I won't have Microsoft dictate to me what I can and can't do with the hardware I pay for, period.
By the way, maybe if you toned down your rhetoric people would be a little nicer?
As I said in my first post to you there's no such thing as a form that can't be copied by a computer. So that paragraph has no meaning. Now that we know everything can be copied what should we do about illegal copying?
MS always has controled what you can do on an MS computer. Whoever makes the OS always has and always will have that power, they make the OS, this is nothing new. I'm not "happy" with it, but having spent my life living in the real world I know how it works. It don't take but 10 lines of code in Windows and no machine with that OS will play CDs or MP3s. That's the simple fact. It's like war. He who controls the skies controls the battle field; and he who controls communication with the CPU controls the computer.