Re: Privacy concerns just like MS WMP

Peter B Van Campen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.xmms.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

He probably meant Micro$oft Windows Media Player undisclosed 'feature' of 
reporting every identifiable play back to a M$ repository complete with "Who, 
What & Where" info. Some insiders believe M$ is selling the info to the music 
industry>

Good luck ................ PeterB

On Thursday 11 December 2003 04:31 pm, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> I shared my workaround (using my own downloaded copy of FreeDB) to this
> old issue, as it seems just as relevant now. The original poster
> referred to "MS WMP", which I believe means WinAmp, but the issue is
> valid for all Internet client/server transaction trails, especially with
> correlating logins like CDDBp. Hope my suggestion helped somebody use
> the liberating features of XMMS without authentication constraints.
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, Håvard Kvålen wrote:
> > On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Matthew Rubenstein wrote:
> > > 	Old issue, but still current: XMMS activity privacy.
> >
> > Do you just want to share your general consideration, or are you trying
> > to say that xmms is doing something it should not?
> >
> >  - Håvard, who has no idea about what «MS WMP» has got to do with this

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