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Services Utility: Portable Media Serial Number Service | Display Name (?): | Portable Media Serial Number | | Short Name (?): | WmdmPmSN | | Executable (?): | svchost.exe | | Library (?): | mspmsnsv.dll | | Depends On (?): | None. | | Supports (?): | None. | | Description (?): | Retrieves the serial number of any portable media player connected to this computer. If this service is stopped, protected content might not be down loaded to the device. | | OS (?): | XP Home/Professional, Vista Home/Business, Server 2003, Vista Server | | Startup (?): | | Default | Home | Workstation | Server | Minimal | Tweaked | Automatic | | Manual | Manual | Manual | Manual | Manual | Disabled | Disabled | |
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The portable media serial number service is used for digital rights management (DRM) technology that allows an author of multimedia files to restrict usage of those files to guidelines they lay out, instead of it being freely distributable. The purpose of this technology is to reduce piracy of copyrighted materials. This service holds the purpose of representing a digital mulitmedia device by an identification number. This allows a media playing program to correctly distinguish the rights that the portable media player holds, and allows it to act accordingly. This technology is only used by Windows Media Player though, and the DRM actions are restricted to Windows Media formats, such as Windows Media Audio (.WMA) and Windows Media Video (.WMV) files. It is best that you set this service to manual, and it will activate if it is ever needed. |
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"Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship[...] Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." - Herman Goering: Intelligence office interview at Nuremberg, 1946/4/18
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