Microsoft to allow DVD reading copied from other PC


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Microsoft will be removing the intediction to copy DVD in its next Media Center software, XP Media Center, which is awaited in the next weeks. Microsoft will finally make it possible to its users to read video DVD copied from other PC.

Microsoft changed its position yesterday on a functionality of Media Center, a new software aiming at transforming the PC into center of audio and video entertainment. It should soon be bundled with new computers (the first models of HP equipped with Center Media should available before the Holidays).

Media Center must make it possible for the users to record television programs on their hard disk and to burn them on a DVD. Initially, it was only possible to read these video files if they had been recorded on the same machine. Media Center was to prevent the sharing of videos from one PC to another.

This prohibition is no more. The users will be able to finally read, on their PC or their reader DVD, a video DVD engraved on another PC - except if the recorded programs/files are protected by an royalty-integrated control system. Microsoft thus leaves it to the royalties' holders the possiblity to let or not the users share their contents.

Sources:

http://www.branchez-vous.com/actu/02-10/06-313501.html

http://www.clubic.com/n/gen/n6835.html

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