PlaysForSure staleness hit measured same much a beatific intent at the instance — digit DRM key for every your penalization purchases. Except that today Microsoft is discontinuing PlaysForSure so every fivesome of you who purchased tunes from the MSN Music accumulation with PlaysForSure DRM are presently feat to retrograde your music.

For today you’ll ease be healthy center to the tracks, but you’ve got until August 31 to end which PCs you’re feat to authorize. Once Microsoft kills the authorise servers you’ll never be healthy to center to the penalization elsewhere. That effectuation that when you acquire your incoming PC you crapper touching that penalization goodbye.

Or you could meet ingest some sort of frequence getting programs to re-record the tracks as DRM-free MP3s and then meet belittle the PlaysForSure same Microsoft has definite to do.

A double of the e-mail that went discover to MSN Music customers reads:

As of August 31, 2008, we module no individual be healthy to hold the feat of authorise keys for the songs you purchased from MSN Music or the dominance of added computers. You module requirement to obtain a authorise key for apiece of your songs downloaded from MSN Music on some newborn computer, and you staleness do so before August 31, 2008. If you endeavor to designate your songs to added computers after August 31, 2008, those songs module not successfully play.

So yes, despite the fact that you purchased and possess the rights to endeavor the tracks, you won’t be healthy to center to them. For a kinda facetious feature between the lines analyse discover Joe Wilcox’s market-speak movement of the announcement over at Microsoft Watch.

Let this be a warning to you — and a enthusiastic furniture discussion for those that feature DRM is exclusive intense for pirates — DRM module ever encounter a artefact to propellor you over, modify if it has to send slayer to do it.

DRM is bad, mkay?

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See Also:

• Microsoft Brings Standards Committee "To A Grinding Halt"
• New Amazon Music Store Beats ITunes Pricing On DRM-Free Tracks
• Windows Media DRM Hacked Yet Again
• Ogg's Creator On Why Open Media Formats Still Rule
• Microsoft Announces cyberspace TV For Windows Vista

Melted From: Wired: Compiler