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alarimer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-11-06 06:32 PM
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Anyone have any experience with Napster or Virgin Digital?
Or upgrading DRM for Windows Media Player? I am having problems with all of it. When I go to this site (Http://drmlicense.one.microsoft.com/indivsite/en/indivit.asp) to upgrade DRM, the site causes IE to freeze completely. I have a hunch it might be the Active-X but I can't figure out how to fix it. Basically you are supposed to hit the button to upgrade it so as to listen to protected files. I have tons of music from Napster to go and now Virgin Digital that I cannot play right now. I even upgrade IE to 7 but it does the same thing.

This is frustrating. I have had a lot of computer issues today, including crashing the hard drive on my laptop and losing at least some of my work files but I was hoping to at least get my music to play.
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Droopy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-11-06 07:08 PM
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1. Why can't you just use a different browser?
I have Netscaspe's browser and haven't had too many problems with it.
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alarimer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-11-06 08:27 PM
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3. You can only update DRM with IE
hence my problem. I actually suspect a recent security update may be interfering somehow.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-11-06 07:11 PM
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2. Fuck Napster. I know it's not the same place it was, but back then they
had two songs that I wrote available for the stealing...costing me five cents (it's the principle, not the money) every time someone downloaded the song(s) instead of buying CDs by the people who recorded my songs.

So I'm glad you couldn't use them.

Redstone
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alarimer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-11-06 08:28 PM
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4. Well I like them but it also means I can't use anything else
either. The problem isn't with Napster; it stupid Microsoft tricks of some kind.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-11-06 08:36 PM
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6. Nah, it's not Microsoft "tricks." It's just that their software is
worthless, always has been, and always will be.

Redstone
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Guy Fawkes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-11-06 08:31 PM
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5. Welcome to the great wide world of "KILL THE DRM"
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