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To: Rick Julian who wrote (58529)	11/14/2006 1:35:04 AM
From: KeepItSimple	Respond to of 213182

The wireless DRM will be hacked within the next week, you can count on it. All it will take is a few minutes with some russian teenager screwing around with the flash bios. Microsoft knows this, and has counted on it. --------- This may end up being the achilles heel in Zune's sharing feature: What’s really nuts is that the restrictions even stomp on your own musical creations. Microsoft’s literature suggests that if you have a struggling rock band, you could “put your demo recordings on your Zune” and “when you’re out in public, you can send the songs to your friends.” What it doesn’t say: “And then three days later, just when buzz about your band is beginning to build, your songs disappear from everyone’s Zunes, making you look like an idiot.” If I own my creation, why should you impose your DRM on it? It ought to be mine to do as I wish. Taking that liberty away from me is an oppressive policy