Zune's Viral DRM Will Violate Creative Commons

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday September 15, 2006 @05:34AM from the zune-make-cc-angry dept.

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:Who is liable? by BadAnalogyGuy · 2006-09-15 05:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Assuming the Zune allows violation of the Creative Commons license in this way, who is liable? Is it Microsoft, for making the device, or the user, for distributing Creative Commons-licensed material in a way that's incompatible with its license?

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Re:fool me once... by d34thm0nk3y · 2006-09-15 07:10 · Score: 5, Funny

No kidding. I am so sick of Slashdot's pro-microsoft anti-apple bias!