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To: KeepItSimple who wrote (57103)	9/16/2006 5:01:22 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213182

can you post where you got this info? This can't be right. I cannot imagine that Microsoft would have any reason at all to tag EVERY zune track with DRM that makes it unplayable after being transferred then played 3 times.

To: KeepItSimple who wrote (57103)	9/17/2006 2:56:26 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

>>I cannot imagine that Microsoft would have any reason at all to tag EVERY zune track with DRM that makes it unplayable after being transferred then played 3 times. What if you're a musician and it's YOUR track and you hold all the rights? What possible legal leg would MSFT have to tell you that you can only share your track to people for 3 days? Especially since there is no way for them to "buy it" after "trying it" if you're not even selling your tracks! If microsoft actually does this, this Zune deserves to fail.<< KIS - I can give you a very good reason. Copyright infringment lawsuits. I can't imagine that Microsoft would develop and market a system that allows people to copy songs from CDs and then distribute them all over the place as many times as they want. The record companies would have a fit. The Zune fact sheet says "selected" sample tracks can be shared, but doesn't say how they are to be selected. It also says that not all tracks will be available for sharing, but again, doesn't say how that will be determined. - Allen