Topic: COMPUTER - on August 29, 2002 at 12:35:49 AM CEST
Microsoft steps towards global domination
"Microsoft has unveiled its vision for the future digital media landscape and it's a world where content creators are king. Version 9 of its Windows Media technology, codenamed "Corona", to be launched in September as part of the Windows.NET server, gives media conglomerates complete control over the way their content is viewed by consumers... The sting is that a content licence can be revoked at any time by the copyright owner on application to Microsoft, which will then yank the offending content off the air. The purpose is to stop wholesale piracy of films, but swaths of cultural history could disappear forever if the content owner decides it doesn't want its intellectual property viewed by the public."
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