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Content industry bidding for CD copy protection in Longhorn

By Stanford Center for Internet and Society on September 18, 2004 at 12:25 AM

According to CNet News.com, the major recording studios are asking Microsoft to build a "framework" for copy protected CDs into the next version of the Windows OS, codenamed Longhorn. Besides being bad for consumer and bad for the market, it seems to this non-expert that such a move by MS could open them up to whole new avenues of antitrust liability.

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