[Gllug] E-Monty not for us :-(

[Richard Cohen]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Andrew Halliwell wrote:

> And verily, didst John Hearns announce to the hordes:
> >
> > He's back :-)
> >
> > I saw the writer of 'The Full Monty' on the BBC this morning,
> > promoting his new film http://www.thisisnotalovesong.com/
> > which is beaing released on the NEt ans to give cinemas today.
> > Sadly the site says needs Windows Media Player. Grrrr....
>
> Still doesn't exclude us.
> Just download mplayer, download all the related plugins, and voila!
> I can play windows media vomit format on my machine, so can you.

I don't know...

This thing is using the Digital Restrictions Management in WMP9 - I don't
know how mplayer will handle that, if at all :-(  I suspect that if they
bypass it, their "we're small and European, you can't touch us" defense
won't stand up very long...  And I doubt they've implemented it...

Cheers
Richard

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