Microsoft has decided to the MSN Music Digital Rights Management (DRM) license servers at the end of August this year. What does that mean?
Well for customers who have purchased music from Microsoft’s now-defunct MSN Music store they will have to commit to which computers (and OS) they want to run their purchased music on forever; or give up access to the music they have already paid for, forever!
However, Microsoft has come up with a solution to get around this, users can burn all of their music to audio CD’s and then re-rip them back to their computer as MP3s, without DRM! Great job Microsoft!
For me, I’ll still keep buying CD’s (though I have downloaded some individual tracks in the past) and although some do have on board music protection, you can still play them where and when you want. Of course I may loose a CD (but I can go out and buy another one) but I won’t loose any music if some company decides to switch off some server somewhere!
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