re: #85 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I had a Windows machine whose pre-installed Windows Media Player would not play mp3s. “Licensing issues,” supposedly.

Give me a break.

A real text from MS’s site:

This issue occurs because the Windows Media DRM system maintains information based on the hardware configuration of the computer. If certain components are changed, Windows Media DRM may not work because it may view the change as an unauthorized attempt to move protected content to another computer.

This issue may occur if you have made one or more of the following changes to your computer hardware:
You recently changed hardware components, such as the CPU or the motherboard.
You modified any one of your computer’s Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) settings that affect hardware components, such as disabling CPU hyper-threading.
You moved the hard disk drive from one computer to another computer.

Yeah, that will help to improve my already nihilist views about copyright.