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Windows Vista Deleting MP3s?

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Quinton McLeod

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I heard from a friend of mine that Windows Vista automatically checks the ID3 tags of all given Mp3s and if it finds that they are illegal it deletes them... Can anybody confirm that, or that just heresay?
 
it compares the id tag with "The Mans" servers to see if it matches. If it does, that means you either pirated, or happend to use cddb. It's all because of The Man!
 
Originally posted by: nweaver
it compares the id tag with "The Mans" servers to see if it matches. If it does, that means you either pirated, or happend to use cddb. It's all because of The Man!
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:laugh:
 
*AA has an "anti-piracy" tool that does something like this... it's probably the original that was eventually replaced with "Vista" in a game of telephone.
 
err.. no. What if you created your own MP3's of you singing? How could they tell? What if you did a tribute to some other band and had the MP3 named the same as the original?

Not going to happen.
 
Quinton McLeod, I really, really wish you'd actually read up on Vista before spewing your ignorant propaganda. Here are just a few things you've been saying in the past month:

Vista will delete MP3s if it thinks they are illegal.
First, Vista would have no way of knowing where your MP3s came from. If I created it myself, it's legal. Second, nobody would buy Vista if that were the case.

Vista will only run in 640 x 480 resolution unless you have and HDCP compliant video card and monitor. (Source)
First, what you're talking about only applies to HD DVDs, which we can't even play today anyway. It does not apply to anything else at this point. Second, nobody would buy Vista if that were the case.

Vista is nothing more than a Windows XP Service Pack 3. (Source)
Windows Vista includes an entirely new network stack (allowing for much more robust network connectivity), an entirely new audio stack, and much better handling of device drivers. On top of that, there are much improved versions of Internet Explorer, Outlook Express (now called Windows Mail), Media Player, Photo Gallery, and just about everything else. Not to mention the new applications, such as Windows Defender (antispyware application), Windows Collaboration (peer-to-peer application), Windows Calendar, Windows Backup (automatically backs up your entire hard drive), and much, much more.
 


Vista is nothing more than a Windows XP Service Pack 3. (Source)
Windows Vista includes an entirely new network stack (allowing for much more robust network connectivity), an entirely new audio stack, and much better handling of device drivers. On top of that, there are much improved versions of Internet Explorer, Outlook Express (now called Windows Mail), Media Player, Photo Gallery, and just about everything else. Not to mention the new applications, such as Windows Defender (antispyware application), Windows Collaboration (peer-to-peer application), Windows Calendar, Windows Backup (automatically backs up your entire hard drive), and much, much more.[/quote]

Sounds like Windows XP SP3 to me. 🙂

 
Originally posted by: Quinton McLeod
I heard from a friend of mine that Windows Vista automatically checks the ID3 tags of all given Mp3s and if it finds that they are illegal it deletes them... Can anybody confirm that, or that just heresay?
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Ignore this friend from now on.

Now, if any anti-spyware finds and flags a peer-to-peer app as a vulnerability and ask if you want to delete it and all its directories, then yes. But it is not deleting illegal mp3s. It is deleting the directories that you stored the mp3s in. The first MS rebrand of Giant Anti-Spyware (a year later, called Defender) would prompt you and delete them. If you agreed that all the peer-to-peer stuff was indeed spyware and said go ahead and delete it, who ultimately is to blame? Hint, it was not Giant or Microsoft.

 
Digobick you forgot UAP in your post. In my opinion that's one of the best features of Vista.

Also just thought your sig was relevant to this post, dont shoot the messenger 😉
 
Originally posted by: Digobick
Quinton McLeod, I really, really wish you'd actually read up on Vista before spewing your ignorant propaganda. Here are just a few things you've been saying in the past month:

Vista will delete MP3s if it thinks they are illegal.
First, Vista would have no way of knowing where your MP3s came from. If I created it myself, it's legal. Second, nobody would buy Vista if that were the case.

Vista will only run in 640 x 480 resolution unless you have and HDCP compliant video card and monitor. (Source)
First, what you're talking about only applies to HD DVDs, which we can't even play today anyway. It does not apply to anything else at this point. Second, nobody would buy Vista if that were the case.

Vista is nothing more than a Windows XP Service Pack 3. (Source)
Windows Vista includes an entirely new network stack (allowing for much more robust network connectivity), an entirely new audio stack, and much better handling of device drivers. On top of that, there are much improved versions of Internet Explorer, Outlook Express (now called Windows Mail), Media Player, Photo Gallery, and just about everything else. Not to mention the new applications, such as Windows Defender (antispyware application), Windows Collaboration (peer-to-peer application), Windows Calendar, Windows Backup (automatically backs up your entire hard drive), and much, much more.
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pwnd.
 
Originally posted by: Digobick
Quinton McLeod, I really, really wish you'd actually read up on Vista before spewing your ignorant propaganda. Here are just a few things you've been saying in the past month:

Vista will delete MP3s if it thinks they are illegal.
First, Vista would have no way of knowing where your MP3s came from. If I created it myself, it's legal. Second, nobody would buy Vista if that were the case.

Vista will only run in 640 x 480 resolution unless you have and HDCP compliant video card and monitor. (Source)
First, what you're talking about only applies to HD DVDs, which we can't even play today anyway. It does not apply to anything else at this point. Second, nobody would buy Vista if that were the case.

Vista is nothing more than a Windows XP Service Pack 3. (Source)
Windows Vista includes an entirely new network stack (allowing for much more robust network connectivity), an entirely new audio stack, and much better handling of device drivers. On top of that, there are much improved versions of Internet Explorer, Outlook Express (now called Windows Mail), Media Player, Photo Gallery, and just about everything else. Not to mention the new applications, such as Windows Defender (antispyware application), Windows Collaboration (peer-to-peer application), Windows Calendar, Windows Backup (automatically backs up your entire hard drive), and much, much more.
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What the heck?!
First of all, I was asking a question on something I was unsure of. I didn't make any claims that Vista actually did it. I was simply inquiring...

As for everything else you linked to... Yeah, I did say that. I even gave sources and defended them to the end. I still defend them. It still doesn't excuse the simple fact that I am going to wait a few months before I switch over. I recommend others do the same. No harm in that.
 
Originally posted by: reefhimself


Vista is nothing more than a Windows XP Service Pack 3. (Source)
Windows Vista includes an entirely new network stack (allowing for much more robust network connectivity), an entirely new audio stack, and much better handling of device drivers. On top of that, there are much improved versions of Internet Explorer, Outlook Express (now called Windows Mail), Media Player, Photo Gallery, and just about everything else. Not to mention the new applications, such as Windows Defender (antispyware application), Windows Collaboration (peer-to-peer application), Windows Calendar, Windows Backup (automatically backs up your entire hard drive), and much, much more.
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Sounds like Windows XP SP3 to me. 🙂

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Sounds like OS X to me.
 
Yeah, I did say that. I even gave sources and defended them to the end.
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And that's why everyone is giving you a hard time now, because you were a zealot about your incorrect assumptions and ideas.
 
Originally posted by: Quinton McLeod
Originally posted by: reefhimself


Vista is nothing more than a Windows XP Service Pack 3. (Source)
Windows Vista includes an entirely new network stack (allowing for much more robust network connectivity), an entirely new audio stack, and much better handling of device drivers. On top of that, there are much improved versions of Internet Explorer, Outlook Express (now called Windows Mail), Media Player, Photo Gallery, and just about everything else. Not to mention the new applications, such as Windows Defender (antispyware application), Windows Collaboration (peer-to-peer application), Windows Calendar, Windows Backup (automatically backs up your entire hard drive), and much, much more.
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Sounds like Windows XP SP3 to me. 🙂
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Sounds like OS X to me.
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Sounds like an updated product version to me. Evolutionary (of course) far more change than a Service Pack would bring.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_pack

AFAIK apple considers each dot release to OS X to be a new version; not a service pack.
 
First of all, I was asking a question on something I was unsure of. I didn't make any claims that Vista actually did it. I was simply inquiring...
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Right, cause you just heard it from your 'friend' and all...
 
Originally posted by: spyordie007
AFAIK apple considers each dot release to OS X to be a new version; not a service pack.
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As does Microsoft (NT5->NT5.1 😉). The x in 10.4.x is closer to a service pack.
 
Originally posted by: Quinton McLeod
Originally posted by: spyordie007
Yeah, I did say that. I even gave sources and defended them to the end.
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And that's why everyone is giving you a hard time now, because you were a zealot about your incorrect assumptions and ideas.
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And what was so incorrect about them?
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Maybe the fact that those statements were partially wrong or outright false?
 
Originally posted by: Quinton McLeod
I heard from a friend of mine that Windows Vista automatically checks the ID3 tags of all given Mp3s and if it finds that they are illegal it deletes them... Can anybody confirm that, or that just heresay?
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I hear that they steal your lugnuts at night, and eat them at their human brunches!

Originally posted by: Nothinman
How can it tell if they're illegal from just the ID3 tags?
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Didn't you know? It's one of the tags - Private, Checksum, Original, Copyright, Illegal. Maybe you just haven't noticed it yet.
 
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