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• 20 Sep 06
  

  E F

  Copyfight Stupid

  • Microsoft's Zune will not play protected Windows Media Audio and Video purchased or "rented" from Napster 2.0, Rhapsody, Yahoo! Unlimited, Movielink, Cinemanow, or any other online media service. That's right -- the media that Microsoft promised would Play For Sure doesn't even play on Microsoft's own device.
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  Daniel Jomphe

  zune

  • Microsoft's Zune will not play protected Windows Media Audio and Video purchased or "rented" from Napster 2.0, Rhapsody, Yahoo! Unlimited, Movielink, Cinemanow, or any other online media service. That's right -- the media that Microsoft promised would Play For Sure doesn't even play on Microsoft's own device. Buried in footnote 4 of its press release, Microsoft clearly states that "Zune software can import audio files in unprotected WMA, MP3, AAC; photos in JPEG; and videos in WMV, MPEG-4, H.264" -- protected WMA and WMV (not to mention iTunes DRMed AAC) are conspicuously absent.
• 19 Sep 06
  

  webmink

  So if you have been unlucky (or foolish) enough to build a library of WMA files, you are out of luck (and probably can't even burn s CD from them). Maybe they should rename their program "Plays For Now"?

  DRM DMCA EFF Microsoft rights abuse Music

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  Dan Feidt

  Microsoft's Zune will not play protected Windows Media Audio and Video purchased or "rented" from Napster 2.0, Rhapsody, Yahoo! Unlimited, Movielink, Cinemanow, or any other online media service. That's right -- the media that Microsoft promised would Pla

  copyright eff drm microsoft zune music

• 15 Sep 06
  

  A Wolf

  MS new Zune player will not play drm'd windows media files even ones certified as windows media plays for sure

  copyright drm

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