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Microsoft Zune: The Good, the Bad and the DRM Ugly

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Mary Jo
Mary Jo
Sep 18, 2006
1 minute read
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Even if you’re already sick of hearing about Microsoft’s Zune portable media player, there are still a few tidbits worth calling out. Microsoft already is dropping hints that there’s a Zune phone coming. Meanwhile, the DRM scheme Microsoft is building into Zune is incompatible with Microsoft’s “Plays For Sure” protected audio and video content. (Thanks to BoingBoing for the Zune DRM link.)

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