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On 28 Aug 2003, "dewittian" <> spake thusly,
as shown in newsWm3b.35196$ gy.com:

> This may sound stupid but why didn't real player, music match jukebox,
> or Microsoft put that ability in their players. It would seem like a
> no brainer to someone talking about playing video media on a computer
> would automatically ad the ability to play those files from a hard
> drive as well as from a disk?

Because to do so would potentially make it easier for their products to be
used for inappropriate purposes (ie - piracy) and since they are major
"anti-piracy" companies, they don't bother.

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