WindowsXP & MP3

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You guys are gonna love this one. As everyone knows the RIAA and all kinds of other corporations dont really like the MP3 format and have been coming up with their own audio compressed file formats for a while hoping to get people to switch. It hasnt been successful at all though. But guess what?

Microsoft and Seattle-based RealNetworks are working to subtly wean consumers away from MP3 technology, [...] plans to severely limit the quality of music that can be recorded as an MP3 file using software built into the next version of its personal-computer operating system, Windows XP, according to the report.

Uh WHAT?! Cripple your software intentionally because you dont like a particular file format? Thanks Orion

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