DRM And Fair Use: Microsoft Stops Music Service

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DRM And Fair Use: Microsoft Stops Music Service

Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:13:42 AM #51455 Perm Link

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»DRM And Fair Use: Microsoft Stops Music Service

As stated in »my report a few years ago, DRM takes away your rights. How? Here is a true example. Microsoft will close its music service. Not a big deal? <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080422-drm-sucks-redux-microsoft-to-nuke-msn-music-drm-keys.html">The DRM keys will also be stopped</a>. And now any content you have cannot be shifted anywhere. It is stuck on the device and that's all. DRM invades your rights to the product you purchased and now you must buy the music at another store... Exactly what these greedy companies want.

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MSN Entertainment and Video Services general manager Rob Bennett sent out an e-mail this afternoon to customers, advising them to make any and all authorizations or deauthorizations before August 31. "As of August 31, 2008, we will no longer be able to support the retrieval of license keys for the songs you purchased from MSN Music or the authorization of additional computers," reads the e-mail seen by Ars. "You will need to obtain a license key for each of your songs downloaded from MSN Music on any new computer, and you must do so before August 31, 2008. If you attempt to transfer your songs to additional computers after August 31, 2008, those songs will not successfully play."

This doesn't just apply to the five different computers that PlaysForSure allows users to authorize, it also applies to operating systems on the same machine (users need to reauthorize a machine after they upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista, for example). Once September rolls around, users are committed to whatever five machines they may have authorized-along with whatever OS they are running.

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Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:52:27 AM #51459 Perm Link

Douche Bags.
if i own the product i should be able to do what ever the hell i want to do with it.

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Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:32:27 PM #51465 Perm Link

I smell a big old class action coming.

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Sun Jul 6, 2008 7:22:58 PM #65662 Perm Link

and so it begins, I have a funny feeling this kind of crap may become a trend in the online music industry. Next thing ya know you won't be able to transfer music downloaded from iTunes to another computer without paying for the damn thing all over again. heh, even to another Ipod or music device. I sure hope I'm wrong but I know that's wat the RIAA would like though the fools don't seem to get that the harder they make it on people buying music online the more they kill the idea all together. Once that happens they'll b right back where they started. Every song on a personal computer was either downloaded from a file sharing site or ripped from a purchased CD and OH YES better believe they will b shared with others just like always. No matter what changes or hardships RIAA puts on online music it will never b completely crushed. However, they can gladly ween people off of buying half of this crap (a lot of music is just not worth the money) so they can download it FOR FREE!

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