MP3 is DEAD!

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Long live MP3!


http://www.reuters.co.uk/news_article.jhtml?type=internet&Repository=INTERNET_REP_UK&RepositoryStoryID=%2Fnews%2FIDS%2FUK%2FInternet%2FOUKIN-MEDIA-MP3-REPORT_TXT.XML


"Microsoft, for example, 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."


Reports from the battlefront indicate that 31337 hAx0r5
have been able to DMCircumventA Microsoft's innovative
"limit the audio quality of MP3 files" technology by
configuring their MP3 encoders to write to a file
using an extension of ".M3P".


"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more
star systems will slip through your fingers."

                         -- Leia