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MSN Music DRM Servers Going Dark In September
PDQ Back writes to tell us about an email Microsoft sent to former customers of MSN Music today. The company said it would be turning off the DRM servers used to authorize playback of music purchased from the now-defunct MSN Music store. "'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. 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."
They would only turn of the servers that supply Vista "updates"
Considering that we're talking about DRM, the parent poster is strangely on topic.
Sorry, been a long day studying for exams.
So, only rap after that then, huh?
/ducks
sorry, sorry, sorry, had to...
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Free Brown Zunes for everyone?
-- Terry
Heck, this sounds like great news. After all, unlike many a failed new media content venture, Microsoft isn't going out of business and leaving their customers high and dry... just retiring this particular service. So they have plenty of time to come up with a migration plan for their customers, so that nobody who paid for music has to lose access to it. I mean, hell. They're a multinational corporation with an image to protect. They're not just going to tell their customers to go fuck themselves, right?
Right?
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HA HA!
I believe the term "Plays For Now(tm)" is more appropriate. Goes for all DRM content too.
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Isn't this classed as deceptive advertising ?
PlaysForAsLongAsWeTellYouItPlaysNowFuckOff would have been more appropriate.
Apparently you missed the part where it is a Ford?
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a great disturbance on the Internet, as if millions of Plays For Sure musicplayers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Sig this!
Ahrr, there ain't no DRM on my music, matey!
Just not for long.
Never shake hands with a man you meet in a fertility clinic.
Everything are so much easier as a pirate. You even got your backup online, so to speak.
you can download a stripper
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Buckle your ROFL belt, we're in for some LOLs.
And people would call it a "DRM Van". Digital Rights Minivan Van.
Also if you tried to circumvent your OWN van's security, the DRM Partyvan would turn up at your door.
Good info but I have to ask, are other people's slashdot comments really worth that much of your time?
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Yeah... fun times. I removed a DVD drive from my machine and got locked out by WGA. It'd been more than 30 days since I removed it, and it decided that this was a significant enough hardware change to require re-activation.
So when I finally had to actually use Windows on this machine, I had to suffer through a lengthy phone call to Microsoft before I could actually use my legal copy. Good thing I wasn't in a hurry, and good thing I expect things like that from Windows.
I have 2 votes then. It's call the British Pound. :)
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Yes, just don't spend it here in Britain itself else it'll only buy you half a vote ;)
Boo hoo! I only have a Euro, which means I have 0.79 the voting power of you.
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