Um...What exactly is wrong with that? There are lots of LEGAL ways to download music. Apple's Music Store and several other licensed commercial services provide music download services, as well as internet radio and other "fair use" applications. This seems like a perfectly legitimate reason to want internet access. As such, it seems like a perfectly reasonable feature to advertise. The problem _IS_ Micr0$0ft choosing to produce code with vulnerabilities in order to increase market penetration. They have essentially built the information superhighway equivalent of the exploding Pinto and it's high time they got held accountable if you ask me. I hesitate to include this here (sorry Susan), but, I'm starting to think that all the admins and other people who are suffering impact on their non-windows systems from these vulnerabilities generating DOS traffic should take Micr0$0ft to small claims court. Let them defend a couple of million tiny lawsuits all over the world. Make them play whack-a-mole the way we've had to on patching their garbage. Owen --On Friday, August 29, 2003 21:14 -0400 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 21:06:24 EDT, Terry Baranski <tbaranski@mail.com> said:
This is a disturbing viewpoint. Next thing you know we'll be blaming ISP's for file sharing...
Well, when one of the largest providers of high-speed internet access is including "download music" as a reason for wanting their service.....