dailytechrag.com — It has been revealed that about 40-60 percent of the songs sold through Microsoft's Zune Marketplace will not allow sharing over the Zune's WiFi connection, at the behest of the consumer's best friend, major record labels.
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phillymjsJan 20, 2007
@monkeyrun:"Explain to me why should I pay $180 a year to get my 5 CDs."Because RIAA executives have families to feed, dammit! :-)
ifoamJan 20, 2007
yes not all songs are available in the marketplace, but most 95% are.either way, you subscribe for a month, download, strip drm, cancel and repeat quarterly
computerdude33Jan 20, 2007
I have never in my life heard of that term. I'd just call them the classic "retard".
sophiaperennisJan 20, 2007
I don't understand why there is a need to add DRM to songs that are shared over WiFi, and why the RIAA is so uptight about making 40-50% of the songs purchased to prohibit sharing? The sharing part is to promote a song to others, and if that other person likes it, he/she can buy the CD / download the album online from the Zune store.The RIAA should finally understand that the number of songs copied / downloaded on P2P / BitTorrent / Usenet, far outweighs the microscopic percentage of songs that would be copied through the Zune WiFi feature.It is beyond me that they don't understand this.
chuklzJan 21, 2007
Welcome to the Social Disease! Sssssssuckers!
michaelpe2051Jan 21, 2007
i am handicapped. i make about $12,000. per year. so i can't afford an IPOD or ZUNE BUT I DO HAVE AN ACCOUNT ON zune marketplace. i like it because i can put just $5.00 at a time on it. i have about $30.00 of credit(points) built up for later use. everyone is always complaining on both sides about restrictive DRM. i agee DRM IS STUPID but i like to legally aquire my music even if its just a little bit at a time.my MINIDISC records optical/line in so any songs that i buy on ZUNE marketplace or any other providor can be recorded ,with original quality, via the line in port. i also have a nakamichi cassette deck that i baught real cheap(nobody likes them no more) but, its all i can afford. my suggestion is to M$ to make something like the IPOD shuffle or the NANO. something regular people can afford! i still have and use my 16mb mp3 player. it may only hold an hour or so of music (great around the house) but i have 2000 songs in my collection and transfering them to the player takes only seconds. that is something that i never have been able to do with any protected content player i have ever owned. i don't imagine the ZUNE as being any different?
duxxyukJan 25, 2007
From a purely hardware point of view the Zune is pretty cool. Once software gets into the device then things go downhill. All of microsoft's stuff is like that. I have always chosen their brilliant intellimouse devices but use linux as my OS.