http://www.gearsandwidgets.com/2006/09/14/microsofts-zune-set-to-make-its-first-public-appearance/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:07:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.gearsandwidgets.com/2006/09/14/microsofts-zune-set-to-make-its-first-public-appearance/comment-page-1/#comment-299 Gears and Widgets :: A Heaping Helping of Tech » Zune’s “Viral” DRM Wraps Your Personal Content in Microsoft DRM! Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:11:40 +0000 http://www.gearsandwidgets.com/?p=157#comment-299 [...] So details have arisen in the blogosphere, merely a day after the Zune was revealed in a private press gathering yesterday that the only real innovation in the Zune is “viral DRM,” meaning that using the Zune’s new “social networking” feature that allows other Zune owners to stream music to one another wraps up YOUR OWN MUSIC in Windows Media DRM before streaming, and, of course, doesn’t let it go. Blatently violating Creative Commons and trampling on your own personal rights to your own music-not just music you might download from Microsoft’s “Urge” music service-and enforcing DRM on music that Microsoft has no idea how you obtained; you could have ripped it from your own CD without DRM, and suddenly it has DRM if you own a Zune. [...] [...] So details have arisen in the blogosphere, merely a day after the Zune was revealed in a private press gathering yesterday that the only real innovation in the Zune is “viral DRM,” meaning that using the Zune’s new “social networking” feature that allows other Zune owners to stream music to one another wraps up YOUR OWN MUSIC in Windows Media DRM before streaming, and, of course, doesn’t let it go. Blatently violating Creative Commons and trampling on your own personal rights to your own music-not just music you might download from Microsoft’s “Urge” music service-and enforcing DRM on music that Microsoft has no idea how you obtained; you could have ripped it from your own CD without DRM, and suddenly it has DRM if you own a Zune. [...]

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