Whilst poking around the web seeing if I can legitimately buy MP3s of the Faithless album I came across Virgin’s download service. I have no idea if there’s anything useful available there as I was blocked at the front page for having the wrong operating system. A useful little pop-up window informs me:
So to give you the widest choice of music possible we would recommend that you upgrade your operating system to one which will support more modern DRMs (i.e. to Windows 98, 2000, ME or XP)
I think they mean “change your operating system” or “downgrade your operating system”. They can’t possibly be suggesting that switching from Linux to Windows is an upgrade!
I think they meant “upgrade your DRM system”. The OS being, in their view, justa commodity for the consumers to run “modern” DRM systems…
That sounds pretty likely. But they actually said “upgrade your operating system”.
I’m not quite sure how increased DRM widens your choices either…
Well, when attempting to access the site with Mozilla 1.3 i get the following:’The site you have tried to enter requires Internet Explorer 5 (or better) with Windows Media Player 7 (or better) on Windows XP, 2000, Me or 98. Click Here to use our Doctor Download application to help you check your configuration alternatively Email Dr Download.Please try again.’…but I have got IE 5 or better ;-)