Zune's Viral DRM Will Violate Creative Commons

lopy writes "Medialoper has noted that Zune's highly touted wireless file sharing will infect otherwise unprotected audio files with proprietary DRM. In cases where users are sharing songs covered by any of the Creative Commons licenses, this would be a clear violation of those license. From the CC FAQ: 'If a person uses DRM tools to restrict any of the rights granted in the license, that person violates the license.' It'll be interesting to see how and if the CC community responds." An anonymous reader wrote in mentioning a post to the Crave blog, relatedly exploring how the Zune stacks up to the iPod.

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Re:Astroturf, of course. But non free still sucks.

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow willy, you posted no less than five times in this article. This 'Zune' thing from Microsoft is really starting to scare the shit out of you, isn't it? Your pathetic little crusade to advocate "Amarok" over iTunes has failed as expected, so now you want everyone to stay away from this as well, because, well, you're always right.

So judging from the amount of times you've posted to Vista articles declaring it's "going to fail", Zune is the other thing that keeps your hatred well-fed, isn't it?

Well, the good thing is that at the end of the day Microsoft will continue to sell software, services and devices and make billions of dollars at it, and you'll still be the same pathetic little growler with no future and plenty of hatred to share with all the people around you. What a sad way to waste away one's time.