The day the music died
Microsoft can’t go one day without trying to alienate their user base. Take their Office product which received a completely renovated the UI, aginst business customers protest. Vista is the EU’s number one target. And now Zune is poised to upset both online music services and existing WMV device owners. According to the EFF, the new Zune portable media player from Microsoft won’t play files with the old Microsoft DRM.
Hence, all of the ‘PlaysforSure’ media that has been sold and is currently being sold will not play on the Zune. In addition, Microsoft is now violating the DMCA in order to transfer files to the player. And also they have gone on the record about supporting piracy. Microsoft Zune architect J Allard was quoted as saying there’s ‘Lots of DVD ripping software out there that encodes to those formats, so the most popular formats out there, whether it’s MPEG-4 or H.264, we’ll support those.’
What is going on in Redmond?!
