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sylvarAnti-Flag will take a few months out of its socialist-propagandizing schedule to help a shoe company reach the teen market this summer.
A bit snarky, I suppose, but the article later mentions that For Blood and Empire will be coming out in March, which makes me happy. I just hope RCA knows enough not to put DRM malware on the CD.
On the subject of DRM malware, why on earth is it Windows' (and possibly Mac OS') default stance that anything put in a CD drive should be treated as autorunnable data? I'd love to be able to tick the box for "Treat all media in this drive as audio-only, and if there appears to be a data track, use a dialog box to ask whether I want to open the data track."
A bit snarky, I suppose, but the article later mentions that For Blood and Empire will be coming out in March, which makes me happy. I just hope RCA knows enough not to put DRM malware on the CD.
On the subject of DRM malware, why on earth is it Windows' (and possibly Mac OS') default stance that anything put in a CD drive should be treated as autorunnable data? I'd love to be able to tick the box for "Treat all media in this drive as audio-only, and if there appears to be a data track, use a dialog box to ask whether I want to open the data track."
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Date: 2005-11-23 03:29 pm (UTC)I think it is off by default in MacOS X, though maybe not...If not though, there is a single checkbox to turn it off (there was in earlier OS versions as well, though it was put in a very unusual place).
Personally, I think autorun CDs are stupid; well at the very least 'enhanced' CDs. I can kind of see the reason why for support convenience a company might want their software installer to auto-run when you put the disc in... but putting a audio CD in just to listen to it and having some gaudy Director-based monstrosity pop open and take over your screen, most likely bogging down every other thing you have running at the time, in the process... well, I'm sure you know what I mean.