[Wikipedia-l] WMA: Whips My A**...

d.n.mckee d.n.mckee at durham.ac.uk
Sun Jun 16 23:33:10 UTC 2002


> Also: how about a feature to limit the size of files uploaded?  That
> would take care of most mp3s, and certainly also *.wma.  And Omanash
> at least has a static IP since he just uploaded something over 650 MB.
> 
> What's a wma, btw?

Windows Media Audio. More proprietary then MP3, more sucky than OGG,
less supported than many, many other things.

Should **almost** be banned on grounds of:

1) Copyright infringment: most are likely to be CD tracks
2) Completely unsuitable format: only readable by Windows without
conversion

Dragon.



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