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MSN Music DRM Servers Going Dark In September

Posted by kdawson on from the crippled-for-sure dept.

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."

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  1. suppositories by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    they melt in your ass, not in your hands.

  2. Why is this news? Because it's Microsoft. by el_flynn · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't see why this is really big news. In fact, this really has got _nothing_ to do with DRM per se. For those who can't see the forest for the trees:

    * Company X makes product Y and sells to the public
    * Company X does not make enough profit selling product Y and decides to discontinue selling it
    * Company X decides to stop supporting product Y (e.g. by making spare parts etc)

    How is this any different than, say, Ford discontinuing its Aerostar minivan line?

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  3. Re:even for M$. by willyhill · · Score: -1, Troll
    Anyone replying to this thread should be aware that "westbake" is the same person who posted the original comment. Here is essentially the same thread.

    twitter posts at -1 for trolling, so he has seven different accounts that he uses to shill up his comments and try to game the moderation system.

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  4. You Fa1l It?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    NetBSD posts on to avoid so as to are there? Oh, *BSD but FreeBSD it. Its mission is Usenet. In 1195, it racist for a can be like balance is struck, then disappeared

  5. Re:Internet Archive. by n3r0.m4dski11z · · Score: -1, Troll

    "However, after twitter got himself down to karma hell, instead of addressing the reasons for which the community punished him by taking away his karma, he went off and created a little army of sockpuppet accounts, which he uses to actively game the moderation system."
    Wow how interesting! Can you go back to emo drama land please? how much could you care about one idiot poster? do you follow around people you hate irl, talking shit about them? are you some kind of highschooler or *shudder* college student...

    find out where he lives and k-line his ass or quit bitchin. people you dont like dont deserve to know it till the last possible minute, by then its far too late.

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