[Am-info] Microsoft Admits XP Media Player Spies on Users

[Mitch Stone]

On Saturday, February 23, 2002, at 09:26 AM, Paul Rickard wrote:

> ========== On 2002.02.23 12:22 PM, Mitch Stone typed: ============
>
>> Hence the quotation marks around "free." The basic rule of economics:
>> everything comes at a price, even when it's not in cash. Now we know the
>> price of WMP. Incidentally, one of the common criticisms of the Mac is
>> that WMP for the Mac isn't kept up-to-date with the Windows version. Yup,
>> I'm really weeping in my beer over that one.
>
>     I don't see any way Microsoft could use WMP Mac to spy on customers
> the same way it does with the Windows version. Especially when Macs won't
> use it to play CDs or DVD.

I don't know of any technical reason why spyware could not be implemented 
on the Mac. Why would a Windows user would use WMP to play CDs an DVDs? 
Surely, other choices exist.

   Mitch Stone
   mitch@accidentalexpert.com