Proprietary format good, open format bad:
Here comes
another CD copy protection scheme, which hopes to make CDs
you cannot rip into your MP3 collection for your own personal use. Somehow, this
new system will redirect the felons who rip CDs to a site where they can
download access-controlled Windows Media files. Of course, this locks you
into Microsoft's platform, but then again, I suspect that this access control
technique may not work on other platforms (such as Linux).