According to Microsoft's lead product manager of Windows Digital Media:

"There is still a way to get these licenses back and it is pretty easy
using our Personal License Migration Service (PLMS), [which] was designed
to address the exact situation you outline."

Well isn't that just swell of Microsoft that they
haven't made it impossible yet, and it's "pretty
easy". Lovely.

Do you still trust them with your mission critical
data? How long till they start encrypting the standard
Microsoft Office formats to prevent "accidental
corruption by rogue software" - like Sun StarOffice.

Get out now while you still can. I will help you.


On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Robert Bushman wrote:

> Window is now configured by default to make backing
> up some files impossible without also backing up an
> authorization key. Welcome to flavor country.
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/08/15/1323206
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4477138,00.html
>
> "I have been collecting music using Windows Media Player to copy from
> CDs. When I needed to reformat my hard drive, I copied all my files to
> CD-R, re-installed my operating system and copied them back, only to
> find my music would not play."
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>  "These security related updates may disable your ability
>  to copy and/or play Secure Content and use other software
>  on your computer." - MS Media Player EULA
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>
>

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 "These security related updates may disable your ability
 to copy and/or play Secure Content and use other software
 on your computer." - MS Media Player EULA
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