“Customers who have purchased music from Microsoft’s now-defunct MSN Music store are now facing a decision they never anticipated making: commit to which computers (and OS) they want to authorize forever, or give up access to the music they paid for. Why? Because Microsoft has decided that it’s done supporting the service and will be turning off the MSN Music license servers by the end of this summer,” Jacqui Cheng reports for Ars Technica.
Cheng reports, “MSN Entertainment and Video Services general manager Rob Bennett sent out an e-mail this afternoon to customers, advising them to make any and all authorizations or deauthorizations before August 31. ‘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 seen by Ars. ‘You will need to obtain a license key for each of your songs downloaded from MSN Music on any new computer, and you must do so before August 31, 2008. If you attempt to transfer your songs to additional computers after August 31, 2008, those songs will not successfully play.'”
Cheng reports, “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. “
Full article here.
Microsoft treating their suckers customers like garbage is par for the course.
This’ll inspire even more consumer confidence in Microsoft’s Zune fiasco. Use those “points” while you’ve got ’em, ya hear?
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Follower” for the heads up.]
What’s the point of Zune if you can never burn your songs to a CD?
“Zune Pass–How Does It Work?
You can get a Zune Pass that’s good for either one or three months at a time. Charge your subscription directly to your credit card or enter a code from a prepaid card. Songs you get with a Zune Pass can be copied to up to three computers and three Zune devices, but they can’t be burned to CDs. If you want to do that, buy those songs* with Microsoft Points.”
Microsoft → Your wallet, our passion.
@hm… LMAO good one!
Hey. What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
I am from Tunisia and also now am reading in English, please tell me right I wrote the following sentence: “In an collective middle, a process can be associated a behalf of an contributor making an only percussionist, and is born by a entrenched mainstream.”
THX 8), Elena.