Dell Colludes With RIAA, Disables Stereo Mix 377
RCTrucker7 writes with a link to a Maximum PC story, which begins: "Details of Dell's surreptitious collusion with RIAA (Record Industry Association of America) have emerged. Apparently, the computer manufacturer disabled the Stereo Mix/Mono Mix/Wave Out sound recording function on certain notebooks to assuage RIAA. The hardware functionality is being disabled without any prior notice and one blogger has even alleged that he was asked by Dell's customer support staff to [shell] out $99 if he desired the stereo mix option. Gateway and Pac Bell are the other two manufacturers to have bowed to RIAA at the expense of their customers' satisfaction and disabled stereo mix without warning." (There are some workarounds posted in the comments of the linked article.)
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The MPAA has decided that asking large computer manufacturers to disable any Video Out options, so pirates are thwarted.
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packard bell? (Score:5, Funny)
Gateway and Pac Bell are the other two manufacturers to have bowed to RIAA at the expense of their customers' satisfaction and disabled stereo mix without warning."
Is that the Packard Bell that so many of us loved to hate? Really, did they even reach the technological prowess of having stereo recording in their systems?
I really thought their systems pretty well disappeared back in the mid to late 90s, and were buried in a junkyard with rusted-out Yugos somewhere.
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Re:Why is RIAA asking this? (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Any...facts in this case? (Score:0, Funny)
"Details of Dell's surreptitious collusion with RIAA (Record Industry Association of America) have emerged.
I'm glad they cleared that up. I've never heard of an organization called the RIAA, have you?
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It's called Preview, the button left of the [Submit]
Re:Any...facts in this case? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What editors? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm eight and have ADD, you insensitive.. LOOK! A BUNNY!
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In Soviet Russia, federal underpants gnomes, pound-YOU-in-the....wait...naaaa
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Nah, that would make Slashdot outright unusable. I mean, half the headlines would be identical then. Can you imagine trying to find anything? ;)
Re:Any...facts in this case? (Score:3, Funny)
Because, y'know, why should we actually let dedicated hardware do its thing when we can put the load on the CPU instead?
Re:What editors? (Score:3, Funny)
I'm eight and have ADD, you insensitive.. LOOK! A BUNNY!
That's supposed to be "PONIEZ" get it right.